I wanted to watch blu-ray dvd's on my iPad. Looks like that's not possible with the Superdrive. Anybody know if/how that can be done?
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I have the MCE drive. It's much faster than the Apple drive & works better. A no-brainer.
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ME Technologies sells a USB Super-BluDrive for $79, which includes software that can play Blu-ray movies. There are also two softwares. One is Aurora Software's Blu-ray Player for $30 android the other is Macgo's Mac Blu-ray Player for $60. Mac Blu-ray is due for a 3.0 update. Both are pretty much the same. Check out their reviews online.
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Sorry, I can't help you. I had the same problem, returned the item with my cd in it. Bought Superdrive from Apple and have no problem.
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This is just the divice; it does not come with the software; that has to be downloaded for your specific operating system. There is more than one choice for the software, (more that one brand name). It is tricky to work correctly on a MAC for Blu-ray, but DVDs work much better. Almost all software available will play DVD an CD on this drive.Apple does not have a business interest supporting external drives like blu-ray, since most of its software, applications, entertainment, are available through iTunes. very respectfully, Curtthom@cox.net, Frankfurt, Germany
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Great I ordered thinking it came with Blu Ray drive. Can it be upgraded? I saw a video on YouTube that mentioned Blu Ray, but didn't exactly stated if it had it or not.
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It only lists the following formats as playable: Multi-format playback: Capability now includes DVD-/+R, DVD-/+RW, VCD, SVCD, CD-R, CD-RW, and MP3 playback for flexible playback options.BD is not among them. I say that because, while I own one, I've never actually tried putting a blu-ray disc directly into the drive. As far as I know, it is strictly a DVD player. I use a PS3 for my blu-ray needs.I would opt for something else if you want blu-ray capabilities.
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The drive itself uses a SATA connector, and shows up in Windows as a standard cd-rom drive. I didn't have to load any specific drivers, it uses the generic one supplied with Windows 7. It will probably be seen my Mac OS X, but I have no idea whether or not the OS or apps would let it read Blu-Ray content.
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You need to format it as a FAT32 drive. It comes pre-formatted with the NTFS file system--which can't be read by most Blu-ray players.
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It's just plug and play. I have a 2011 mac book pro and have use this drive several times with no issues. Just remember that macs don't have native Blu-ray playback. You'll see the disk mount, and you can even burn to recordable disks. But you will need 3rd party software to play movies. There is free stuff out there if you google it.
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Hello. I have not had any problems with the DVD's or Blu-Rays I have bought. It has worked flawlessly every time. Perhaps it is possible to have trouble with homemade discs, but I have not tried any of mine in the player.
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To access info on your iOS device, give access to your device from the CloudBox dashboard, and from your device visit:http://mynas.lacie.com/My Samsung Smart TV can access my movies (and pics, music, etc.) without any set up. With PS3 the content shows from an external device, and is also easy to do. Seriously, CloudBox is awesome! I highly recommend it. Just purchased my second 3tb CloudBox to store the rest of my movies. Dream device.
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I returned my device .. it actually did not work at all. However, I think you can transfer pretty much any file, as a download, the question is, can a MKV file even be played by a player on an iPad? I think there is a version of VLC for the iPad, and the PC version of VLC plays MKV files. I wish I knew more, but the device did not work for me ...
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I found online that it supports OS X 10.6 and up. I am not familiar with OS X in general so I can't fully commit and say it will be easy to use. Many users are claiming it to be hard to find a good program for burning the data. Apple has never endorsed Blu-Ray so this shouldn't be surprising. I would check some forums before committing to a purchase, but I must say its a great BD burner.
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No only play blu ray does not support dl either . bummed i;ll find a replace drive in future
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I don't have an iPad but I do have several android devices and with the free software available in the app store, you can watch/view media directly from the device as well as transfer/download things from the drive to the device and back.
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Greetings Let me see if I understood, you said that the blu-ray drive freeze very often? so good if you change the unit of these can forward and rewind without any kind of freezing besides this movies are even better
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Yes, it reads a DVDRW data disc just fine with .mp4 files, however if they are high-def files, it hick-ups periodically, due to the transfer rate, these should be on a blu-ray, but I don't have a BD burner yet. Haven't tried the USB yet, but it should read it also. Blu-rays are flawless, netflix is too, but shearching from the tv menu is lame, better to "pair" with your laptop, etc, and search from it, while playing through the tv.
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Good question. I am running Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro and have had no problems burning and accessing Blu-ray disks with this drive. I have not installed any 3rd party software to allow this to occur.