Blu ray data drives

I am considering switching over from PC to MAC in the next year or so. In the meantime, I am looking to purchase a blu ray burner to back up my photos and videos as a secondary backup to an external hard drive.
1) I had heard that Macs don't like playing blu-ray discs but are there any issues with using a blu-ray to burn data files?
2) Are burner drives compatible with both PC/MAC?
3) For disks that I have burned using PC - can I later read using MAC or would I need to reburn them?
4) Any recommendations for a good blu-ray burner?
Thanks much.

am looking to purchase a blu ray burner to back up my photos and videos as a secondary backup to an external hard drive.
an external hard drive is an external harddisk not an optical drive
optical backup is not very replable you would be better off backing up to an external hard drive really
buy 2 and alternate between them and keep one in a safe in side a vault in a mountain fortress

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so ive read that mac doesnt support blu ray natively. but it CAN burn and read blu ray data (not natively) correct?
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You will need to buy an external Blu-Ray drive, since your iMac doesn't support these disks.
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Macs or mac mini work with blu ray external drives even XL DISC CAPACITIES

macs or mac mini work with blu ray external drives (BURNERS) even XL DISC CAPACITIES like 128GB?

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I was wondering if anyone has a Blue Ray Disk Drive connected to there T61? Can the T61 handle a Blue Ray Disk Drive? The reason I am asking is because I was thinking of getting one for my T61 and then playing Blue Ray movies thru my LCD TV, the LCD TV being monitor #2. Would the quality be as good as a normal Blue Ray player that is hooked to the TV? My graphics card is Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M. Thank you for in advance for any advice on this.
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My iMac Keeps on try to boot on my external Blu-ray disk drive and not the hard drive. Therefore when I turn it on, it boots up and then it go pass the sound and the apple logo come up on screen but then it frezzes and noing happens; even if I hold down the power button.
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http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=38&Code=43R9150&current-category-id=9B7E41BDCE704020B8E567C67D3FA082&model-number=2713&ProductName=ThinkPad%20laptops&SeriesName=R500&ModelNumber=2713
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Hi how's it going, hope ur doing fine.
I am currently experiencing this exact problem and noted the date of your post. [and also the no-response-so-far] Did you ever manage to get a fix for this problem?
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So far hp's Support & Drivers pages are not listing any Support & Drivers for for this model running any version of Windows 7. p/n KU827PA#ABG HDX9200 series
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Hey Zagayer,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
As you now have two optical drives in your Mac Pro, you need to be able to choose which drive to eject. That is built into the system. You just hold the Option key while tapping eject for the 2nd drive.
OS X Mountain Lion: Eject a disk
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10613
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