External blu-ray drive? Can you use an external blu-ray drive to watch blu-ray discs on an iMac?
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To be fair, Windows does not support Blu-Ray either, due to "legal reason", and requires users to get third party software, which is the exact same scenario with OS X.
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I believe the answer is no. The Mac OS does not support Blu Ray playback at this time. I read on cnet.com that you can do this if you install Windows on the Mac and use an external Blu drive but even then, the results were not that great from what the article stated.
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I have actually bought an external blu ray player and have actually been able to use it on my iMac with ease.
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Works on my iMac but I have issues burning blu-rays because of my sleep settings. I had to change it to get it to work.
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Hi Harvo, The DIGISTOR drive doesn't come with software for Mac that allows regular disc file burning. The Mac software that it comes with is called REWIND and it is built for creating a personal archive of files you want to archive to Blu-ray disc. If you'd like to burn regular Blu-ray disc files to disc, you will need additional software like Toast, which is not included in the package.Thanks,The DIGISTOR Support Teamwww.digistor.com/support
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The standard optical drive is a dvd/cd, it does not have blu ray support but you can install one that does. It will come with a battery and AC Adapter.
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I use my external USB drive to download and watch movies. Works great and I have a Macbook Pro.
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A little more info would be helpful. I.e. What type of computer you are using and what software you are using to use the drive. For example, I use a Macintosh computer and use makemkv software to rip blu ray movies and use blu ray player software to play movies.
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I have both burned and watched blurays on MAC and PC with mine. The MAC requires optional software and there are several options online .
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No. Mac does not support any Blu-Ray Device. It can burn Blu-Ray on the high end editing software but it can't play them. This is a Mac only drive. It may not work on a PC.
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Most of this era iMac's have a special SuperDrive. It mounts about 1/2" further back than a normal drive. If you substitute a MacBook Drive for one of these, you will not be able to push the CD/DVD far enough into the drive, to allow the mechanism to grab the disk and pull it into the drive. I do not suggest you use this drive. Use the Profile Manager to get the part number of the installed drive, and get that exact one.
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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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External Optical Disk Drive Model SD-3107-U3. I use with my imac and I have not blue ray player but I converted to mp4 one movie. Is a normal unit and read data, mp3, mp4 ... but this is a function that depends on computer. Write dvds.
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Yes you can play Blu-ray movies. You need to buy a software program to play the movies. Yes it's a combo drive and will do DVDs and CDs.The Blu-Ray program I found that works best on my Windows 7 is from IDeer.
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Yes...ish. For data and DVD disks no problem. Mac doesn't like Blu-ray though. You will have to download software (Macgo is the only one I can find that is reliable) or use hacks with free VLC and DVDFab that are complicated and don't always work, at least for me.
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Yes it can. I am actually using an external Blu-ray drive via USB 3.0 port.
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Yes. This external drive is just like the Super Drive for the MAC. It is a read and write drive or plays DVD's and music CD's, just like a hard drive in a computer would act.
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There no disc drive at all, so no it does not play blu-ray. I have an external DVD-RW drive that I use if I need to burn a disc.
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Blu-ray discs play in the Rosewill USB 3.0 player with an iMac but must use VLC or other compatible program to view.