Other World Computing sells Mac compatible BlueRay external drives
starting at $68
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/blu-ray
Of course you would then need software to read a bluray. I wonder if
Apple's push to go diskless is early adoption of a perceived future
trend or a push for more iTunes purchases. It's hard to tell as there is
a conflict of interest but you can't easily separate the sauce from the
spaghetti. For me, I still like my computers with optical drives.
CB
On 5/31/13 12:20 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
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
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