IMac won't accept blu-ray discs

My iMac won't accept a blu-ray disc when I insert it - the iMac spits it back out after about 10 to 15 seconds. I then tried a normal DVD and the iMac accepted it and started playing it almost immediately. Is it not possible to play blu-ray discs on an iMac or Powerbook? Are there any fixes?

Hi guys,
I in the same situation as Seattle Oz, in that I am thinking of buying an iMac and would like to use it to produce high-definition videos. I currently use a Sony VAIO VGN -- A R21S which has a Blu-ray disk drive. I am told that with the use of Roxio Toast, I can burn to a Blu-ray disc but cannot play it. I find it pretty incredible that a product that is renowned for video editing and allows you to produce a Blu-ray disc doesn't actually have the facility to play it! However that being the case, what does anyone else do, to produce HD quality videos and how do they export them, if not by Blu-ray disc. I would also like to know what format the output is in, when it is burned onto the Blu-ray disc.

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I insert a blue ray disc, It starts the HP MediaSmart Player and then comes up with an error message stating:
Information
The content is protected.
The content is not allowed to play in the current display mode.
The computer is only a month old and has never played a blue ray. its plays regular DVD just fine.
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Hi,
It seems that your PC has old version of MediaSmart installed, and it does not get updated from Cyberlink (Who created PowerDVD too).
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Click Start->Control Panel->PRograms and Features. Select MediaSmart DVD and click Uninstall. Uninstall PowerDVD too.
Install MediaSmart New Version:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp49001-49500/sp49489.exe
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ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp50501-51000/sp50778.exe
If it does not work, install Trial copy of PowerDVD:
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Do iMac (Intel) play blu-ray discs?

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Rob,
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Until about a week ago I was able to read cds, dvds, and blu ray discs with my dv6 product number lm720av. Windows 7 64 bit. I put in a disc recently and it tries to read the disc for a couple of minutes before it stops trying and shows no disc in the drive. I looked online and it looked like there were other instances of this happening but no one had a solution. It can read cds but not dvd or blu ray at this point. I tried uninstalling the optical drive via device manager and it uninstalled no problem then windows automatically found the drive and reinstalled the drivers which did not change the results. I saw online people were suggesting running sfc under administrator mode in the command prompt. No change. Does this mean my blu ray diode failed? I see two lenses in the drive, is one cd and the other a combo dvd/blu ray? Any other suggestions?
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Now it's through 40% and not showing any error, but i seem to remember that I clicked "Yes" to ignore "miscompare"
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mm

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Trying to get a solution for playing BR discs on my MacBook Pro (with USB attached Pioneer BD Burner/Player). It would appear that Bootcamp is the way forward, but due to the way in which my partitions are set up, this will be a bit of a pain...
So before I embark on that, might I ask here if anyone has seen PowerDVD (or any other BR player) working on a Bootcamped MacBook Pro (late 2008 model)?
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I too am trying to achieve this - there are load of threads on this, but I haven't found one which gives a conclusive 'this definately works and here's how' answer.
I've got the LG BE12LU30 (which is recognised in OS 10.6.6). It comes with the PowerDVD software (Windows only) so I installed Windows 7 with Parallels 6 to run it. Unfortunately the CyberLink Advisor doesn't 'see' the NVIDA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card in my Macbook Pro, instead it sees a virtual Parallels graphics controller and won't play blu-rays.
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Pretty vague eh? I'm considering spanking yet more money on a different windows blu-ray player, maybe Corel WinDVD 2010, I've actually seen that working on Windows 7 (albeit a Sony Vaio laptop).
I didn't realise that you could install Windows 7 64 bit on boot camp, until I started routing around the boot camp support website, so I might attempt a reinstall - doubt it'll make much difference.
Also, on a couple of forums people talk about the Macbook Pro display not being HDCP compliant. I don't know what that actually means, but I was led to believe the Macbook pro 17" display is HD (maybe not HDCP).
The most annoying thing is reading the odd thread where someone says 'it works fine' with little to no detail!

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