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blue ray on new imac

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jmonfire

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Oct 28, 2009
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Hi. I'm not a tech guy and was wondering if someone could answer me on this

is blue ray drive a software? If apple releases downloadable blue ray playing software, can the DVD rom attacehd on imac be used as blue ray player?
or is blue ray player completely different hardware?

I know I sound stupid but I really don't know much...
 
Mac OSX cannot play back Blu-Ray discs currently.

Should Apple finally add that capability to OS X, an external Blu-Ray drive can be used.
 
jmonfire said:
Hi. I'm not a tech guy and was wondering if someone could answer me on this

is blue ray drive a software? If apple releases downloadable blue ray playing software, can the DVD rom attacehd on imac be used as blue ray player?
or is blue ray player completely different hardware?

I know I sound stupid but I really don't know much...
Click to expand...

OSX currently supports the reading/writing of BluRay DATA discs. currently the decoding software has not been implemented to decode and playback BluRay movies.

it is both a software and hardware issue:
1. hardware: macs do not ship with the BluRay drive capable of reading a BluRay disc - you currently must find your own.
2. software: macs cannot decode or encode BluRay movies, apple is the people who must implement this (or a 3rd party developer who wants to put in the time and effort).
 
Playing blu-Ray movies requires hardware and software. Since apple continues to ignore our pleas for blu-Ray capability in OS X there are no blu-Ray drives included with any macs. However, you can buy an external blu-Ray combodrive for under $100 and use bootcamp (windows) to play the blu-Ray disk. I do this on my umbp.

Cheers,
 
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