Blu-ray authoring w/Mac Pro

I use both iMovie6 HD and, later, FCE, for editing the kids' sports video from my JVC GZ-HD7U 1080i camcorder, but envision a day soon where I need to put my videos onto a Blu-ray disk (to show in my PS3). BestBuy currently is clearancing their BWU100A internal Blu-ray writer, and it's attractive because unlike many of the internal drives this one is EIDE (slower than SATA but possibly a direct replacement for the Pioneer main drive in the MacPro (I'm using the 2nd drive bay for a lightscribe drive). My question is has anyone else used this drive on a MacPro (the box only says Windoze) and is it compatible with iDVD? Also, can it serve as a 'bootable' drive or should I just consider an external box?
thanks in advance.

Joseph Armstrong wrote:
... and is it compatible with iDVD? ...
No.
iDVD supports actually only authoring to the two SD standards NTSC and PAL ..
Toast8 claims to 'burn' BluRay, but still nobody dared to tell his/her experiences, how BR-standalone manage to handle such disks..
Apple is member of the BluRay consortium, so... on Jan 14th 08 is the next keynote.. (speculations are not allowed on this board), and Steve is at Disneys board, which supports - tadaahh - BluRay..
so, the standard will be BR, or Apple does some 'Superdrive II' which supports both HiDef standards... (I guess Pioneer has such a drive..? I've read some news..)
... but, we still miss software, which does the authoring.. encoding in HiDef is easy, but the disks have some formats and file structure, which is actually not supported by any MacOs software..

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I recently moved from PC to MAC and changed from Adobe to Final Cut Pro. I have no problems with authoring to DVD but I am struggling to see how I am going to do decent blu-ray authoring on MAC. Reason being is I have a number of clients that want both DVD and Blu-ray and I like to create interesting menus with background music. I am relatively happy with iDVD and DVD SP (which of course are not blu-ray compatible so no good to me) and I have just purchased Toast Titanium Pro and discovered you can not add music to the menu or do much else so it feels like a waste of money - any suggestions for good alternatives would be appreciated.
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If you plop the topic to google you can settle in for several hours of frustrating reading.
Ah, google!
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http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/open-source-blu-ray-authoring
http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/video/articles/69842.aspx
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Compressor: Even Less...
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Panasonic/SW5582BK/
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Any external Blu-ray burner should work on Mac. Talk to these people:
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