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Apple TV vs. Blu-Ray
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Thanks, I know I'm going a little off topic here but i have a quick question (again)- would need a burner if I wanted to rip blu rays? i was thinking about going external..
if you're only ripping a reader would do
if you want to make copies then you would need a burner, the discs are expensive too
unless you burn it as an AVCHD disc in a dual layer disc (which is what i do every now and then and they work on most stand alone bluray players and ps3's)
if you want to make copies then you would need a burner, the discs are expensive too
unless you burn it as an AVCHD disc in a dual layer disc (which is what i do every now and then and they work on most stand alone bluray players and ps3's)
for those of you who are using anydvd with parallels, where are u getting the Bluray drives? u just cant put a blu ray in a super drive. 
I don't have here at home (I left it at work...don't ask) but I just picked up an external 4x blu ray READER. It does not write - but it's an external to USB drive and it does what I need it to do:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001AE7LGQ/
Check around and you might be able to find it cheaper or an equivalent thats cheaper. Note - i've only ran this under native windows, never tried it via parallels or vmware or anything like that.
My pipeline is to rip and tsmux on windows, then take that file to OS X. No offense to anyone but I feel like Handbrake on OS X is a much better product. All the times i tried to convert blu ray in the windows version, i ran into problems.
So to answer your question - Core Duo 266 should be just fine.
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they would be buying a desktop grade burner/reader and putting them into an external case, then connecting them via either FW or USB.for those of you who are using anydvd with parallels, where are u getting the Bluray drives? u just cant put a blu ray in a super drive.