Anyone doing Blu-ray yet?

I was thinking about getting an internal Blu-ray drive for my new Mac Pro and I was wondering if anyone is doing it here.
I'm guessing the only way to do it right now is to export out of Motion as a QT movie and then use Adobe Encore, which supports Blu-ray.
Does anyone have experience with Adobe Encore or doing Blu-ray?
Do you use the same HD-DVD preset for Blue-ray in Compressor?
Thanks!
Scot

Yes, after you select "HD DVD", the Disc/Volume tab has "Disc media: Red Laser, Blue Laser". However, this is HD-DVD and not Blu-ray. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray use the blue laser.
When you click on Blue Laser, the size information goes to 15 gigs, which is HD-DVD. If you select dual layer, it goes up to 30 gigs. Blu-ray is 25 gigs and 50 gigs.
The red laser is the standard DVD, 4.7 gigs. Blue laser is used by HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm a novice when it comes to HD-DVD and Blu-ray, but I'm guessing that there is more to formatting a disc than the color of the laser. There is the format of the files and directory names, format of the disc itself, I'm guessing.
In any case, from what I've read, the only way to do it is with Adobe Encore and Encore isn't for mass duplication since there's this whole Sony system involved with that and it costs a huge amount of money. Encore is for BD-R only, which is fine for me since this is for a tradeshow and I only need 2 copies and not 10,000.
For commercial production of Blu-ray, it's at the point DVD was at the beginning stages where you have to put up a ton of dough to create the master to someone who has the really expensive gear.
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so... i'm using Final Cut Studio 2.
I have an edited footage in FCPRO in this format: XDCAM EX 1080p30
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I do bet my business on it. But by the sme token, having a business means making sure you have back-ups and rotating hard drives also. I had some of the first CDs ever made, and many of them are failing, even some of the more recent ones from the mid-1990s. And these do not include the burn your own.
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I would bet neither hard drives or blu-ray will be around in 20 years, and if I was going to bet, it will be alot shorter than that. It will be SSD, Compact Flash, downloads and whatever follows. blu-ray and DVD will be like my Zip drives, Jaz drives or VideoDiscs.
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