Blu-Ray Capabilities

I just bought Toast 9 for my MacBook Pro. A big idea is to be able to burn High Definition Video DVDs, such as Blu-Ray.
Will a newer MacBook Pro (purchased new late-November 2007) burn High-Definition DVD? Blu-Ray?
If not, what do I need to do to get it to burn Blu-Ray??
My model is running Leopard 10.5.2 & is the model before they integrated Multi-Touch via the touchpad.

Blu-Ray is not only a different type of disk, but it also requires different hardware specifically made to read and/or write to Blu-Ray disks. This is similar to CD drives vs. DVD drives. CD only drives can't read or write to DVD disks. Now... so far as high def goes... you can burn high def videos to any media (even a floppy disk... although you'd probably only get a few seconds on that). High def is simply a resolution. It is independent of the media it is on. Dual layer DVD drives can store about 8.5GB of data. You can generally store an average movie at a decent resolution on a dual layer DVD. Blu-Ray disks however store between 25 (single layer) and 50GB (dual layer) which is obviously much more. Are you trying to make back-ups of Blu-Ray disks? Do you have a high def video camera and you want to store your videos on Blu-Ray? I'm just trying to determine exactly why you want a Blu-Ray drive as there may be other options that could give you the same results with your existing DVD drive.

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