Blueray goes Apple - finally have a solution!

The Samsung SE-506AB carries the Mac logo, and is probably also officially certified by Apple. The player is slightly larger than a Blueray in an envelope with good 14cm edge length and very light. A power supply is missing. The player is by default connected to 2 USB 2.0 ports of the Mac. Unfortunately, the MacBook Air has only 1 female. But on an iMac 27 inch the player also ran smoothly only with a USB connector. Obviously enough, at least at the current iMac from the pulling of the player.

As soon as you a Blueray inserted into the drive, a player icon on the Apple desktop. You can choose which program you want to use now. Highly recommended is because the Finder. When you open it and select the Bluery drive, you can drag and drop files onto the drive using drag and then burn them directly (top right there is a button for it). I have a 25 GB blank of a pack of 10 of Platinum used it. The software displays 6x burning rate (although the Platinum blanks are only 4x) and burn a 2 GB movie file in about 3 minutes. These blanks are quite favorable, for example, even at Amazon, available. When the burn process has finished, the Blueray is finalized simultaneously. So you can, if you forgot something, nothing more to add!

Even if you already burned a Blueray with files, such as photos inlaying, you can watch them easily and for free with the Apple "standard tools".

But beyond that has to be paid for Software. Since Apple does not think much of the Blueray, there is only very limited provider. A burning software is the toaster from Roxio, which I have in the version 10. So here goes something must be a plug-in for 19 Euro 90 (March 2012) purchase. The new version toaster 11 Pro (not the normal version!) Has this plugin here already. But it is also quite expensive.

Very mau it looks with software players for commercial film Bluerays. With difficulty I have found the Mac Blu-ray player on the Internet. This is a free downloadable free version, which carries an inscription in the middle, as long as one has this not yet bought. But I think to try it does not interfere too much. I saw the movie "Avatar" technically well produced inserted. The film starts very quickly. As can many standard player that are connected to a television set, cut a thick slice. On my iMac 27 inch image quality is excellent and the sound also. What bothers some, is that the blue LED on the front of the player flashes continuously while the movie plays. In addition, can be heard as a slight humming a permanent drive noise. This disturbs some, especially if you sit in front of a laptop, on which the player is connected for watching films.

The player is still a whole range of programs from CyberLink PowerDVD for example, power backup etc .. These run only on Windows. Pity the Apple user has none of it. The Quick Installation Guide has rightly named. You do not really need him.

Résumé:

Compared to other players now dezitierte support of Apple computers. Well priced - at least momentary unbeaten. The player is in any case to use up to me annoying flashing and the running noise during movie playback very well, very compact / lightweight making it ideal for laptops. The power supply only via USB is very convenient (but empties the laptop battery). The crux is currently the low software support for the Mac. But everything is essential. In principle, very suitable is the Blueray as large Seichermedium for photographers and filmmakers as a DVD here is just not enough capacity offers.