Blu-Ray

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I am about ready to pull out my hair! I keep reading articles that the new Toast 7.1.2 is suppose to support Blu-Ray burning and then I hear otherwise. When I called Roxio that didn't know anything. For real! The Roxio person that answered in tech support said one of the other workers was experimenting with 7.1.2. What kind of answer is that? How come this technology has been out for almost a year now and Toast still can't support it. How Japan has had this software OEM for almost a half a year and still nothing here. Roxio's general comment is that it ships with OEM burners only. Well, it does not; only in Japan. So does 7.1.2 support it or no? If not get it together and get an updater uploaded A.S.A.P. because the world needs to move on!

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Anyone know where I can purchase the out of country OEM version of Toast that DOES support Blu-Ray buring?

[freshburn]

Toast 7 won't work with BD unless you have a BD key, and it won't install all the components needed for BD to work correctly in the Finder or add the correct erase functions needed to erase BD. You may have 'partial' functionality, but not full. Toast 8 does has full BD support.

[John at Roxio]

Toast 7 only supports Blue-ray if it is an OEM version that comes with a Blue-ray drive. We know Blue-ray is upon us though, so rest assured we aren't ignoring you.

 

P.S. I cant even find a store anywhere in the Denver Area that has any Blue-ray blank media so it isnt like Blue-ray has hit the mainstream yet.

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Okay, this is stupid. First, I read articles on line that the new Toast 7.1.2 supports blu-ray burning. Then I heard only the OEM version, which is only available in Japan, supports blu-ray burning. Someone from Roxio replied to my original message confirming this. I had already bought my blu-ray burner because I originally read on-line, but my blank media was on back order so I was upset. Well my media just came today. I decided to ignore the Roxio employee and try it anyways. Guess what? It works great. So what is going on and why does no one know what's going on including the people that work at Roxio? A lot of grief for nothing. So for the record, the 7.1.2 upgrade works great for burning blu-ray disks on a Mac. No OEM needed.

[freshburn]

Lacie is shipping Toast with BD.

 

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070105/20070105005136.html?.v=1

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Toast 7 only supports Blue-ray if it is an OEM version that comes with a Blue-ray drive. We know Blue-ray is upon us though, so rest assured we aren't ignoring you.

 

P.S. I cant even find a store anywhere in the Denver Area that has any Blue-ray blank media so it isnt like Blue-ray has hit the mainstream yet.

 

It's just that I already bought one based on several articles I found. Then I stumbled across a couple threads in this forum and was dissappointed because I have 20 discs being delivered tomorrow. I have been in dire need for a alternative storage solution other than regular DVD-R's. I know, why don't I just get more hard drives. Well, I have a robotic system that works with software for backing up client data. Since they are the same size it will be a perfect solution for me. I have some client back ups that have single file resources that are individually too big to fit on a single DVD-R. Now my RAID is getting full and I am trying to wait till Toast supports Blu-Ray burning so I don't take up any excessive space in my robotic back-up machine. 25 gig verses 4.7 gig on a regular DVD-R is worth waiting for, but I am not sure how much longer I can hold out. It arrived 2 days ago.

 

Bottom line is that Roxio should have known what they were talking about when I called. Plus with all the floatinf articles out there that state 7.1.2 supports Blu-Ray burning I feel as though there should be something on the Toast page that corrects this rumor. Finally, it would be nice if Roxio had some approximate release date so I can plan for it on a business level.