Hi, You're right regarding many of the modern Windows units. You're not quite there with the Mac and Blu-Ray stuff. You can play Blu-Ray content on a Mac with a third party app such as from
http://www.macblurayplayer.com/how-to-play-a-bluray-disc-on-mac.htm and of course you'll need a compatible external Blu-Ray drive. I'm guessing that as Apple was moving away from providing built-in CD/DVD devices, there was less desire to bother putting Blu-Ray into their various models. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-05-30, at 7:50 PM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not even 100% sure if blue ray works on the Mac with the appropriate > drive. I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm only saying I don't know if it does, > seeing that no mac systems come with a Blue ray drive, which I'd think most > modern windows based machines would, wouldn't they? or am I wrong. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "shane christenson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:49 PM > Subject: a couple of cd/dvd questions > > > Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu > ray reader/writer for my mac mini. I would prefer something I don't have to > plug into electricity, but if it has to have wall power, that's not by any > means a deal breaker. I don't care if it doesn't write to blu ray disks, but > I have several blu ray disks I'd like to watch on my new machine. Any and all > recommendations will be greatly appreciated and considered. > My second question is, if I have a dvd or blu ray disk I want to extract just > the audio tracks from, specifically if the disk has a descriptive audio > track, is there Mac software out there that will do this? I've heard of > HandBrake, but, unless I'm wrong about this, it handles audio and video. If > it will handle audio only, and allow for the extraction of the d v s track, > and if it is VO-accessible, I'll sure give it a try. Thanks for your help on > any of this. > > Shane > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
