So when MCE Technologies told us they had a new line of Blu-ray burners that came with Mac software for watching Blu-ray movies, our interest was piqued. But the ability to pop a Blu-ray disc into a MacBook Pro and watch a movie-just as you can with a DVD-has so far eluded Mac users. For this reason, some peripheral makers have begun selling limited external and internal Blu-ray drives to Mac users. However, Mac OS X does have support for reading and writing Blu-ray Data (BD) discs, and Final Cut Pro can burn projects to Blu-ray for playback. Whatever your view, the fact is that Mac OS X still doesn't have native Blu-ray movie support. An alternate theory is that Apple simply skipped integrating Blu-ray into its Macs in favor of iTunes Store movie downloads. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously complained that the licensing involved in including Blu-ray movie support in Mac OS X was too expensive and complicated to be worth pursuing. Playing Blu-ray movies on a Mac has been a ' bag of hurt' for far too long.
