Blu-Ray burning

[Zootopia]

With the purchase of the new toast, (Toast 8 Titanium) would it be possible to burn to a BD-R for back up purposes only using off the shelf iMac G5 Power PC? I'm not interested in making videos but would like the space afforded by BD-R technology for back up burning and what not. Once a disc is burned, then will the disc drive in the Mac read the Blu-Ray format? This is why the software is appealing to me but if I can't remove the data from the disc, the I'll wait until I can. Please let me know what you know! Thanks

[freshburn]

You must have a Blu-ray drive. They currently cost about $1000. If you have a blu-ray drive, then you can back up the data on the PPC.

[Zootopia]

You must have a Blu-ray drive. They currently cost about $1000. If you have a blu-ray drive, then you can back up the data on the PPC.

Are they external drives? Plug via Firewire or USB? Can you make a recommendation on a brand?

[freshburn]

They are external. Lacie, Sony, Plextor all sell external drives.

[Zootopia]

They are external. Lacie, Sony, Plextor all sell external drives.

Thanks Freshburn...you've helped a lot. I appreciate it.

[lolyq]

Hi, I'm just trying to back up with toast on my blu-ray drive (MCE Internal, Mac Pro 2x2.66).

 

As described in the manual, I created a partition and backed up the disk image to create a Mac Volume Disc. It backed up niceley, however there is no way I can read whatever is on de BD disk now. When inserted it is not recognized as a valid format and restore application don't even see the disk when inserted.

 

I just want to backup DV and HDV video in the same way as Toast Dynamic Writing but in BD-R instead of BD-RE.

 

Any help highly appreciated!

 

LQ