Blu Ray burner

jhawk40 · Feb 9, 2010

Ok first of all I am new to the Mac world. With that being said, I need help finding a external blu ray burner that works for a Mac(notebook). I was wondering if someone could tell me what kind of burner/software I need to copy blu rays. I really have no idea where to start or where to look. Thanks for the help!!

Kevriano · Feb 9, 2010

Sadly you have shot yourself in the foot by saying you want to copy blu-ray. We can't discuss such things here.

jhawk40 · Feb 9, 2010

Sorry I didn't mean blu rays as in movies. I have a bunch of wedding/birthday blu rays that my brother made and I don't know how to copy them to give out to family and friends.

Thanks

brockmant · Feb 9, 2010

And taking BluRay Movies you have purchased and burning them to a Harddrive or to make a backup is 100% legal. No problem whatsoever with doing that.

Kevriano · Feb 9, 2010

Ok. Well you will need software like Toast Titanium, and a blu-ray burner. I don't believe software like disk utility supports blu ray yet, as Apple don't have burners themselves, but I know Toast does. Trouble is it costs, though it's worth it.
As for burners, Buffalo make one that I know works with Mac/Toast, but there must be others.
One thing to note, if you have Toast and the Blu Ray plug in, you can burn 25 minutes of Blu Ray footage onto DVD discs. Maybe that's enough for what you need?

Kevriano · Feb 9, 2010

brockmant said:
And taking BluRay Movies you have purchased and burning them to a Harddrive or to make a backup is 100% legal. No problem whatsoever with doing that.

I think not, the same applies to dvd's where you need to breaking the coding.

jhawk40 · Feb 9, 2010

Thank you guys both for the help. Sorry for the confusion on what I needed copys of. Most of the material I need to copy is 15-20mins long. So I will look into buying the Toast software. So that answers that question.

Second question, making backup's for blu-rays for movies that I purchased I would need the Toast software and a blu-ray bunner?

osxx · Feb 9, 2010

Kevriano said:
Ok. Well you will need software like Toast Titanium, and a blu-ray burner. I don't believe software like disk utility supports blu ray yet, as Apple don't have burners themselves, but I know Toast does. Trouble is it costs, though it's worth it.
As for burners, Buffalo make one that I know works with Mac/Toast, but there must be others.
One thing to note, if you have Toast and the Blu Ray plug in, you can burn 25 minutes of Blu Ray footage onto DVD discs. Maybe that's enough for what you need?

You got my interest since most social events that a friend of mine shoots in HD are only around 15 to 20 minutes and Toast can put this on a single layer
DVD? Guess my pocket book just got lighter.

Kevriano · Feb 10, 2010

jhawk40 said:
Thank you guys both for the help. Sorry for the confusion on what I needed copys of. Most of the material I need to copy is 15-20mins long. So I will look into buying the Toast software. So that answers that question.

Second question, making backup's for blu-rays for movies that I purchased I would need the Toast software and a blu-ray bunner?

Yes, correct.

osxx said:
You got my interest since most social events that a friend of mine shoots in HD are only around 15 to 20 minutes and Toast can put this on a single layer
DVD? Guess my pocket book just got lighter.

Indeed, that's all you need. And Toast is well worth the money, you may even want to look at the Pro version, as it has a lot more useful features.