Bluray software

Hello I have a external Bluray DVD player that i would like to use on my min 2010 iMac . Can anyone recomend Cheap/free software that works well. Ive only red Ideer gat cost $50. with upgrades. Thanks.

What kind of software do you mean? If you want to burn only data disks, OS X's built in Burn utility can do that. If you need to create Blu-ray movie disks, that will require third party software. There aren't many choices in that category. None of them are free, and none are all that cheap.
Toast Titanium 11 is what I currently use. 12 is the latest version. You can purchase version 11 from Amazon for only $30. Version 12 is averaging $85 and doesn't do anything all that different or better than version 11, so you may as well get the cheaper version.
In order to burn Blu-ray movie disks, you must also purchase the Blu-ray plugin. It's another $20. Install Toast Titanium, then the plugin.
Toast allows some variations of user choices for the authoring (how the disk looks when put in a set-top player), but it's kind of limited. However, that's to be expected at that price. Professional video creation and disk authoring apps cost much more.

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