Bluray burner for mac.

[Franz Barr]

I would not recommend any optical reader burners firstly they are unreliable and hard disks are cheaper for storage

franz

[Javier Lopez]

Hello Franz,

Thanks for the message, I am looking advice on Blu-ray burners, since I am producing more HD content at this time.

Regards.

[Mike Molenda]

I’ve had good luck with OWC’s Mercury Pro external (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MRF8BDSD12X/). If you’ve got a Mac Pro you can get internal drives a lot cheaper (the OWC is basically a Pioneer or LG burner in a quad-interface enclosure), but I often find myself burning from multiple computers so the portability is nice.

I don’t really have a frame of reference for speed, since it’s the only burner I’ve used, and I use it mainly for burning one-off HD screener discs. For bulk projects where I’d rather not babysit a burner all day, I usually outsource to a duplication house.

There’s not a lot of Blu-Ray authoring software for OS X, and what’s out there can get a little pricey, so be sure to factor that into your purchasing decision. You’ll also probably want to invest in a standalone Blu-Ray player for testing since Blu-Ray playback on a Mac is iffy at best.

[Gary Huff]

[Franz Barr]I would not recommend any optical reader burners firstly they are unreliable and hard disks are cheaper for storage

I have lost two hard disks, but so far never lost anything backed up to an optical disc.

[David Eaks]

Never a problem with my old LaCie 4X BD Burner. Here’s a link to the 12X-

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/681820-REG/LaCie_301906U_d2_12x_Blu_ray_Disc.html

[Mark Wilson]

I purchased a LG External 12x BE12LU30 bluray burner for my MAC. It only tells you its windows compatible but it works great with MAC (SL & Lion).

For speed I added a Matrox MX02 with MAX sending everything thru Compressor, selecting the Matrox with MAX bluray disc codec.

All the processing is done through the matrox hardware. I shaved 5 hours off my processing time.

Link
https://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/max/

[Diogenes Goris]

Hello,

@ Javier… did you finally buy the Blu Ray burner for your MAC?

If so…

1. Which one did you get?
2. Which media is working for you?

I own a BDR-203 from Pioneer but is super slow and has no updates for the firmware.

Thank you.
Diogenes

[Berry Carol]

I’d like to recommend Powerful USB 3.0 Aluminum 6X BDXL 3D Blu-Ray Writer for you which can read and write your disc at higher speed along with the USB 3.0 capability. For more detail here https://www.macblurayplayer.com/macgo-bluray-player-drive.htm