Blu-ray Disc for Mac is here

MCE Technologies has brought Blu-ray technology to the Mac platform by introducing the Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 computers.

Blu-ray Disc technology, with its ability to record to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer discs, is the next generation in optical disc storage and MCE Technologies has brought it to the Mac. The MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 is completely pre-configured for easy user installation. In addition to writing to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs, the MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive is compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media including DVD±R/RW + Dual/Double Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R and CD-RW. The MCE Technologies Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive ships with Toast 8 Titanium and includes a 25GB Blu-ray (BD-RE) rewritable disc. All for only $699

Blue-Violet Laser in Use
Store up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of HD video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. The MCE Blu-ray Disc Internal Recordable Drive for the Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 incorporates a state-of-the-art blue-violet laser and ushers in the next generation of optical disc storage.

Blue-Violet. 405nm.
The figure to the right shows the difference in spot size between a Blu-ray laser and standard DVD recording laser. The smaller, tighter Blu-ray spot size means more spots (data) can be recorded to the disc resulting in data capacities of 25GB and 50GB per Blu-ray disc.

Toast 8 Titanium Included
The MCE Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 is bundled with multi-award winning Toast 8 Titanium. Toast 8 Titanium manages all Blu-ray recording functions for the drive and incorporates a special feature called Toast Dynamic Writing. When used with a Blu-ray rewritable disc (BD-RE), Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive ��" drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Blu-ray burning is here today. Toast 8 Titanium also includes comprehensive backup software which allows for manual, as well as scheduled backups to your MCE Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive. It will even automatically manage disc spanning should all your data not fit on one disc.