It worked pretty well, and movies looked great on my Apple Monitor. Despite Apple's dislike of Blu-ray, I find it a nice archival medium for photos - 50 GB blanks are under $5, and are readily available in computer stores and online.Ī while back I looked at software for playing back Blu-ray movies, and reviewed the MacGo app. The OS supports data Blu-ray discs, and you can burn them with commercial utilities like Toast.
If you must play Blu-ray discs on your Mac, however, there are plenty of internal (for Mac Pro) and external Blu-ray drives that work just fine.
Maybe they don't want to pay the license fees, maybe they'd rather sell you movies from iTunes, who knows, but Blu-ray hardware from Apple isn't likely. There’s a new “Share” button that allows users to share information about the content they’re watching on Facebook and Twitter.It's been a while since Steve Jobs declared Blu-ray a "bag of hurt", and in the years since Apple has been uninterested in the Blu-ray disc format. Macgo can also play your DVDs and video CDs, if you’re so inclined.Īside from standard playback features, Macgo also includes other fun goodies to make your viewing experience more interesting. More than just Blu-ray, this player can also act as your universal media player, with support for a wide variety of video file formats, including MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, MP4, MPEG, RMVB, MP3, WMA, AAC and AC3. Developed by a third party, this tool shows how easy it would have been for Apple to implement Blu-ray playback if it had wanted to. Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player is indeed the first of its kind, but also familiar to those who’ve used Mac OS X’s built-in DVD playback tool or essentially every media player out there. Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player will change all that: introducing the first Blu-ray player for Mac OS X! Despite many requests for it to be supported, Steve Jobs has long dismissed it as a “bag of hurt”, and therefore no Mac ships with Blu-ray drives or Blu-ray playback software. Those familiar with Mac OS X are probably aware of the platform’s major flaw when it comes to media playback: there’s no official Blu-ray support.
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