Hardware recommendations for encoding Blu Ray

What Is the best 3rd party hardware solution to encode Blu Rays from FCP or Compressor?
Thanks.

Hi Rick
The CompressHD / Matrox MAX solution is currently purposed for encoding BluRay compliant H.264 files for personal or otherwise low volume Blu Ray authoring (ie either one by one or via duplication) ... high volume authoring / replication is indeed a whole other ball game and with it come some not insubstantial costs over and above what you may be used to with standard DVD replication:
$500/yr (or a $3000 one time payment) for the license (ie to be allowed in the BD replication club)
$500 per master (so if anything's wrong with your master then making another costs another $500)
+ a 4c royalty fee per disc
Bear in mind that these costs exist despite how you premaster the BD CMF (BluRay Disc Cutting Master Format) ie the replication compliant master volume.
If you are a Mac stalwart, Rivergate Software's very reasonably priced BluStreak Premaster software looks to be where its at for premastering the MD CMF volume.
Best
Andy

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