Blu-ray Disc on the Mac? When?

Recently, I was a little surprised, but very enlightened when I came across MCE Technologies‘ web site as I was compiling the buyer’s guides for the October issue. While Adobe Encore and Roxio Toast 10 Titanium with the HD/BD plug-in will happily create a Blu-ray Disc on a Mac, you still can’t play back a Blu-ray Disc without employing Windows XP/Vista/7 running under Boot Camp (sorry, virtual machine users… too much system resources needed… that would be painful to watch if you could pull it off at all.)

For a company who is usually near the bleeding edge, we’re a little surprised Apple hasn’t put forth at least basic Blu-ray Disc playback support on the Mac; and surely someone in the Pro Apps team is a little worried that Adobe and Roxio may be eating Apple’s lunch when it comes to disc burning.

I just came across a petition to ask Apple to consider adding Blu-ray Disc support to DVD Studio Pro… while online petitions usually strike me as being a bit silly, this is one where if you happen to sign that petition, you may just find my name on it as well.

Credit due: ProVideo Coalition.com: the EDITBLOG by Scott Simmons