BLURAY on a MAC..?

Hello, everyone
To start I posted this on another section by mistake then I reposted here. Just to make everyone aware that it was a mistake. Now on to my question.
I had posted before about HD DVD and got some informative input. Thanks to eveyone here..Now I went out and did some looking around and found out that toast 7 supports bluray burning for macs. My question is are there any bluray drives for mac.? and if not could I pass my work over to a PC from a mac and burn it in bluray there?(reason I ask is because I saw they sell bluray writers for PC's) thanks again

No can do.
First, HD DVD and BluRay are competing with other to the degree that they both have refused to compromise the standards so that a single plyaer could handle both, and until a company actually ships a player that is capable of playing both formats, you're out of luck. I've heard of a couple of those that have been announced, but I don't think they are available yet. Maybe there is one, but I don't know about it.
Second, the authoring application that would allow you to author a BluRay disc that will play in a BluRay player is very expensive, and authoring a BlueRay disc requires additional skill sets beyond DVDSP type authoring.
You have a lot of studying to do. Here's a starting place or two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/hddvd/default.aspx

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