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MCE bringing 6x Blu-ray burners to Macs

30 June 2008 18:49 by Andre "DVDBack23" Yoskowitz | 2 comments

MCE Technologies has announced it is bringing a 6x Blu-ray burner to Macs that can playback DVDs at 16x as well as read both Blu-ray and HD DVD.

The drive also has LightScribe compatibility and will allow professionals to author Blu-ray movies using Adobe Premier Pro CS3's Encore software. Non-professionals can use Roxio's Toast 9 Titanium (with the Toast HD/BD plug-in) to author more simple BD movies.

The bare drive is meant for Mac Pro or Power Mac G4/G5 running Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and can only use the HD DVD and Blu-ray playback if using Windows XP/Vista through a Boot Camp partition.

The drive will retail for $500 USD with an external model selling for $750 USD.

According to the specs, the new "Blu-ray drive works with all DVD and CD media, and writes to both 25 GB and 50 GB BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) Blu-ray disks. Speed specs for the new drive are 6X for 25 GB BD-R, 4X to 50 GB BD-R and 16X to DVD�R. It also burns at 4X speeds to DVD�R DL, 5X to DVD-RAM and 40X to CD-R media, among others."

For an extra $100 USD, MCE will bundle the drive with an installation package, software for Windows Boot Camp playback of both Blu-ray and HD-DVD and Toast 9 with the plugin. For $1300 MCE will ship the drive with the Boot Camp package, Toast, and Adobe Premier Pro CS3 with Encore.

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thesquid (Junior Member) 30 June 2008 22:12
if it can only run on macs using boot camp with windows xp or vista, why not just make the drive for windows xp and vista? [ + quote]
emugamer (Member) 1 July 2008 12:07
Has lightscribe even broken into the color realm yet? It's been so long. [ + quote]