Blu-rayPlayers

[HD-Encoding.com]

So I hear that we can burn Blu-ray But Will It Play in a consumer player???java script:emoticon('',%20'smid_8') I am getting very frustrated with putting HD MPEGII compliant files into Mac Applications and not have the app understand Blu-ray for my 1080p big screen. I have been watching HD on my computer for many years. Now I want to watch it on a Blu-ray consumer player. ANYBODY had any luck with any MAC apps?? Does Toast8 properly write UDF 2.5 so a player can read it?java script:emoticon('',%20'smid_13')java script:emoticon('',%20'smid_18')

[freshburn]

Toast only supports BD data. No video.

[phaseshift]

Toast only supports BD data. No video.

 

So the Knowledgebase article that currently states

 

"Toast 8 offers complete Blu-Ray disc support" is untrue.

 

It offers only Blu-Ray DATA support.

 

I find that a bit misleading.

[freshburn]

It does have full BD support. It supports all BD drives and all the media types.

 

It doesn't write BDAV or BDMV (Unless you have a pre-authored image). That isn't support, that's a file format. And even if BDAV was supported, it would not play well, if at all, on the current BD players. And never on the Mac.

[phaseshift]

Seems like semantics to me. The primary reason Blu-Ray Disc was developed was for mass production of high definition movies. The header on the official site for the Blu-Ray Disc Association says:

 

Beyond High Definition

1080P Resolution 7.1 Surround 50GB of Storage

 

 

Storage looks like an afterthought. I don't care whether the Mac will play Blu-Ray movies. I want to author them. And Toast does offer DVD authoring. So saying Toast has full support for Blu-Ray disc, when all it will do is write data, still strikes me as misleading.

[Andre J]

Seems like semantics to me. The primary reason Blu-Ray Disc was developed was for mass production of high definition movies. The header on the official site for the Blu-Ray Disc Association says:

 

Beyond High Definition

1080P Resolution 7.1 Surround 50GB of Storage

Storage looks like an afterthought. I don't care whether the Mac will play Blu-Ray movies. I want to author them. And Toast does offer DVD authoring. So saying Toast has full support for Blu-Ray disc, when all it will do is write data, still strikes me as misleading.

 

 

My sentiments EXACTLY... After getting absolutely NOWHERE with TOAST, I have since purchased ULEAD DVD MovieFactory 6 for $80. It comes with BD DiscRecorder. I installed Bootcamp on my MACPRO along with a new copy of windows. Finally I was able to record BDAV directly from my SONY HDV camcorder (V1-U) and it played perfectly on my SAMSUNG 1200.

 

Having a little trouble doing it from a file, but I think it may be because I installed Windows and the apps on a 32GB FAT partition and, correct me if I am wrong, it has a 4GB file limit? My output from FCP was 15GB...

 

I am thinking I may have to re-install on a larger NTFS volume in order to get this done.

 

The amount of smoke being blown around by manufacturers about Blu_Ray being available and useable now is VERY misleading, IMHO...