Blu Ray for Mac Pro

[VertigoZA]

Hey,

I'm looking for a Blu Ray burner for a Mac Pro. Anyone installed one yet? If so, have you any suggestions on brand etc? Also, who would supply the Blu Ray media?

 

[koffiejunkie]

There are two that I know of:

http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php
and
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

I considered getting one of these instead of a DVDRW when replacing the combo drive in my MacBook, but at the price it's going for, I just cannot justify it.

I would also look at something like this - brings the cost down dramatically.

 

[courage@gp]

blu ray

have a look at the lacie.com website, they have a blu ray recorder available. locally available from the CT distributor.

 

[PeterCH]

AFAIK any PC BD should work altho one of the ones in the link above
comes with free Toast Titanium.

 

[koffiejunkie]

I'm not so sure about that - the Mac's firmware can be finicky about it. I don't know if things changed with the Intels but with the PPCs you had to have a drive that has the apple certified (or whatever) firmware on, otherwise it just wouldn't see it.

 

[PeterCH]

I'm not so sure about that - the Mac's firmware can be finicky about it. I don't know if things changed with the Intels but with the PPCs you had to have a drive that has the apple certified (or whatever) firmware on, otherwise it just wouldn't see it.

I flashed my Apple SONY DVD-R/RW drive to its Generic Region Free
NEC version, no issues . Mac Pro's do recognise any SATA HDD you
throw at it. A post on one of the US Mac Forums should be made to
to double check

 

[koffiejunkie]

Do the Mac Pros use SATA optical drives?

 

[PeterCH]

I would have to open up and check, but I think so.