Read/burn Blue Ray discs in MacBook Pro

Does anyone kows if it is possible to read/burn Blue Ray discs in a MacBook Pro (it have a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-898)? Thank you

No, the superdrive in the macbook pro cannot burn bluray.
There are some external 3rd party bluray players that will work, however consumer level bluray burners are, currently, incredibly unreliable

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Hi,
I was wondering, would this drive: Matshita UJ-225 (slotloader) hypotheticaly fit and function properly in a Aluminium MacBook Pro 17? Its blu-ray, just so you know...
Tom
http://www.fazecomputers.net/servlet/the-53/UJ-dsh-225/Detail

Which MBP do you actually have? An Early 2009 (aka unibody) or a pre-unibody model?
If you have a unibody, no, for 2 reasons. First, it's a 12.7 mm drive, and the 17" unibody needs a slimmer drive - 9.5 mm. Also, the unibody MBPs use a different connector for the optical drive than previous models; the drive you link works with computers as far back as the PowerBook, so it has the old-style connector.
I don't know of any 9.5 mm slot loading blu ray drives (there are 9.5 mm tray loaders, but those will not with in an MBP). You can get an external drive, though.
If you have an older 17" MBP, then yes, the drive you link will work.
Either way, you'd need 3rd party software (e.g. Toast) to read/write Blu Ray discs, and even then I'm not sure there's a player for OS X that will allow you to watch movies (if that's your intent). There are Windows players, which would likely work via Boot Camp.

BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO BURN BLUE-RAY DISC, I TRIED AT LEAST 3 BURNERS APPROVED BY ADOBE WEBSITE AND IT'S NOT WORKING

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I would recommend navigating to www.macsales.com, because they specialize in Macs they can point you to devices that should work with your computer. Please make sure you also have software for burning Bluray discs, i'd recommend Titanium Toast.

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This applies to Premiere Elements any version.
Stop markers placed on the Premiere Elements Timeline destined for burn to Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc are not recognized at playback of that disc using the Blu-ray player.
If you need Blu-ray disc with stop markers, you can export your Premiere Elements Timeline content to an appropriate file type that will be compatible with a 3rd party software which will get the job done. I have heard that a software such as DVD Architect can do that, but I have not been there and done that.
Stop markers function at playback of DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc only. And, never place a stop marker at the end of the last item on that Timeline.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WS09e4b3c48f3a79fc19b622510385d4355c-7e 19.html
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Or Netblender's DoStudio for rather less money. PC based but we successfully run it on a Mac in Bootcamp. Just completed our first full featured Blu Ray and sent for replication.
If you know DVD-SP well then learning curve not too bad and they have very good support and forum.
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Looking around the web it seems that this particular drive requires a firmware update to be able to read dual layer blue ray discs.
This is the only thing I can think that is wrong with my drive, since it reads most blue ray discs, except the brand new one. I just got (500) days of summer from Netflix. It plays on my PS3 but it won't play on my laptop. Other blue rays that I have like Transmormers and planet earth work perfectly.
The symptom is that when I insert the drive, the computer starts scaning for 30 seconds and eventually it gives up. With the other blue ray mentioned, it detects them immidiatly. 500 days of summer doesn't look to be scratched or dirty.
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dont hope to get helped here... they got your money and now you are on your own.
I also had problems with this drive. In my case it just stopped reading blu ray discs (it still reads dvd's and cd's).
If you do a quick google about this drive you'll find A LOT of users have problems with it. So its a pretty **bleep**y drive.
HP's solution to this is to just ignore all the complaints.
Same thing with drivers for their hardware. They only update them once and then its over. And if you go to the manufacterer's website (like nvidia for the graphics card) and try to use their latest version available on their site it wont work because HP adjusts the hardware so you can only use drivers from HP's site.
And when you friendly ask if it would be possible to provide updated drivers, they just ignore you...
My conclusion and advice to you is this: NEVER AGAIN BUY SOMETHING FROM HP! because once they got your money you're on your own.

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Hello,
I have tried many times to burn a bluray disc with FCP and compressor and they always end up not successful. After spending days on testing different settings, I finally managed to only get it to work if I tried
1) outputting to Hard drive as opposed to burn to bluray
2) Turning the default bit rate down from 35Mbits to between 15-19Mbits.
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I have however on a recent job forgotten to switch the setting on compressor to output to harddisk and instead set it to burn to Blu-ray. Big mistake. Again I end up with a h264 file and an ac3 file, and nothing I can do with them after 24 hours of rendering. Oddly, the compressor says "successful" but nothing is created but that 2 files.
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Hello,
Sorry but the instructions in the manual (online and offline) do not answer my question. Yes I do have a bluray burner, it is a matsushita BD-MLT SW-5584. I wrote in my post that when I set it to output to HardDrive, it will create a dmg file nicely for me to burn using disk utility or toast.
But when set it to burn to Bluray disc, nothing gets done. I just want to find out, with the h264 file and the ac3 file that gets created in the process of creating the dmg file, can I still burn the disc or create a dmg file from them without having to re-render the whole thing again.
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Karl
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Part 1.
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Part 2.
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CCleaner - Download
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Photoshop Elements 10 Direct Download Links: Free Trials, Premiere | ProDesignTools
During the installation of these files to your computer, when asked for, insert your purchased serial number into them.
Make sure that antivirus and firewall(s) are disabled for the download and install.
Comments. There are no guarantees that this will resolve the "No Media Present" for Premiere Elements 10 burn to AVCHD on DVD and Blu-ray disc format on Blu-ray disc. In the end, you may have to look at external burners until you find one that works for you for these burn to choices.
Did any of your computer pre-loaded software come with backup installation files? I suspect not.
Please review the above and then let us know if you need clarification on any of the above. You might want to give more consideration to exploring the external burner possible solution.
Thanks.
ATR

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