MCE's 8x internal Blu-ray burner for Mac Pros now shipping, great for anything but playing Blu-ray movies

Here's some perspective: when MCE first released its internal Mac Pro Blu-ray burner, it boasted 2X speeds for a hefty $699 price tag. Cut to present day, when the new generation of the drive that's a noticeably faster 8X Blu-ray read / write and 16X DVD±R/W, all for a hair under $400. Works with Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro and Roxio Toast 10 Pro ... but if you want to play studio Blu-ray movies, you'll have to either dual boot Windows or wait until some indeterminant time when Apple adds BD support for OS X. Them's the breaks.

[Via Macworld]

[albundy Posted Apr 10th 2009 10:16PM]

heh, time for some good 'ol negativity, lolz. Crapple does it again! what good is their os these days if you need winblows to playback a movie? bah, its not only their fault, its sony baloney. now much does a bd-r cost now that the burners are up to 8x? yeah, 10 dollars a disc. dont even ask what a BD-RE or even the dual layer costs cus thats one expensive coaster, but its sony's prize cash cow for the moment. I sooo hope some company comes out and destroys this godawful format. I mean, at this point, anything is better.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2009 3:28AM]

Why would it have to be Apple that wrote the Blu-Ray software for OSX?
Microsoft didn't write the Blu-Ray software for Windows, you can buy several options from several vendors.
There is no reason that these vendors (or someone else) couldn't buy the licenses, sign all the NDAs and write software for OSX.

Or is the issue that OSX doesn't have enough protection for the video stream to keep Hollywood happy?