Oct 29, 2018 - When it comes to playing Blu-rays on your Mac, you're going to need software as well as an external drive, and sometimes that software can be.

Blu-ray Disc for Mac is here. And at 16X it's faster than ever.

Blu-ray Disc (BD) technology, with its ability to record to 25GB single-layer, 50GB dual-layer discs, 100GB and 128GB quad-layer discs is the next generation in optical disc storage and MCE Technologies has brought it to the Mac. The MCE Technologies 16X Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drives for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac and External USB Recordable Drives for Mac are the fastest and most versatile Blu-ray drive we have ever shipped. 700% faster than our first Blu-ray drive for the Mac, it comes to you completely pre-configured for easy user installation. In addition to writing to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer at up to 16X speed, the MCE Technologies 16X Blu-ray Recordable Drive is compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media including DVD±R/RW + Dual/Double Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R and CD-RW. The drive has a 4MB buffer for writing Blu-ray Disc and DVD media and has built-in Buffer Underrun protection. The drive includes a 25GB Blu-ray BD-RE rewritable disc so you can start making your own Blu-ray movies immediately. Prices start at $99, or bundle it with Toast 12 Titanium recording and Blu-ray authoring software for only $179!

Blu-ray SuperDrive Store up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of HD video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. The MCE 16X Blu-ray Disc Recordable Drive for the Mac Pro and Power Mac and External USB Recordable Drives incorporate a state-of-the-art blue-violet laser and ushers in the next generation of optical disc storage. The drive also writes to all DVD±R/RW + DL (Double/Dual Layer) media, DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW media and is compatible with all Apple's iApps. The figure to the right shows the difference in spot size between a Blu-ray laser and standard DVD recording laser. The smaller, tighter Blu-ray spot size means more spots (data) can be recorded to the disc resulting in data capacities of 25GB and 50GB per Blu-ray disc.

Optional Toast 12 Titanium with High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in The MCE 16X Blu-ray Internal and External Recordable Drives for Apple Mac can be bundled with multi-award winning Toast 12 Titanium (including the Toast HD/BD Plug-in) for only $80 more. A savings of over 33% off the retail price! The HD/BD Plug-in will allow you to create your own Blu-ray movies with custom menus playable on set-top Blu-ray players as well as Playstation 3 game consoles. Best zip for mac os.

Toast 12 Titanium manages all Blu-ray recording functions for the drive and incorporates a special feature called Toast Dynamic Writing. When used with a Blu-ray rewritable disc (BD-RE), Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive – drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Blu-ray burning is here today.

Toast 12 Titanium also includes comprehensive backup software which allows for manual, as well as scheduled backups to your MCE Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive. It will even automatically manage disc spanning should all your data not fit on one disc.

ROM Reading 14X BD-R 2X BD-RE 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 5X DVD-RAM 8X DVD+R DL 8X DVD-R DL 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Baseline specifications for recordable media are as follows: Blu-ray 1X = 4.5MB/sec, DVD 1X = 1.375MB/sec, and CD 1X = 150KB/sec. For instance, Blu-ray media recording speed of 14X (63MB/sec) is equivalent to writing to DVD media at a speed of 45.8X, which is equivalent to writing to CD media at a speed of 420X!

Author Professional Blu-ray Movies As high definition (HD) has become the new standard for video, and Blu-ray Disc has won the high-definition format war for storing HD content, it's more important than ever to be able to author professional-quality Blu-ray discs. You can do so with the MCE 12X Blu-ray Recordable Drive and Apple's new Final Cut Studio and Final Cut Pro X. That's right, you can now easily burn a Blu-ray disc directly from Final Cut Pro 7 or later as well as from Compressor 3.5 or later. Quickly add a menu to your disc by choosing one of the beautiful Apple-designed HD templates or, to achieve a specific look, import and use third-party or custom templates.