MCE offers both internal and external Blu-ray burners for Mac users. Unfortunately, as we discovered, it seems as though MCE's solution introduces its own bag of hurt. After all, who doesn't like high-definition movies? Perhaps the solution would work for those interested in a Mac-based home theater, or for laptop-toting travelers.
So when MCE Technologies told us they had a new line of Blu-ray burners that came with Mac software for watching Blu-ray movies, our interest was piqued. But the ability to pop a Blu-ray disc into a MacBook Pro and watch a movie-just as you can with a DVD-has so far eluded Mac users.
For this reason, some peripheral makers have begun selling limited external and internal Blu-ray drives to Mac users. However, Mac OS X does have support for reading and writing Blu-ray Data (BD) discs, and Final Cut Pro can burn projects to Blu-ray for playback. Whatever your view, the fact is that Mac OS X still doesn't have native Blu-ray movie support. An alternate theory is that Apple simply skipped integrating Blu-ray into its Macs in favor of iTunes Store movie downloads. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously complained that the licensing involved in including Blu-ray movie support in Mac OS X was too expensive and complicated to be worth pursuing. Playing Blu-ray movies on a Mac has been a ' bag of hurt' for far too long.
