Blu-ray Disc for Mac is here. And it's faster than ever.

Blu-ray Disc (BD) technology, with its ability to record to 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer discs, is the next generation in optical disc storage and MCE Technologies has brought it to the Mac. The MCE Technologies 6X Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac is the fastest and most versatile Blu-ray drive we have ever shipped. 300% faster than our previous Blu-ray drive for the Mac, it comes to you completely pre-configured for easy user installation. In addition to writing to 25GB single-layer at up to 6X speed and to 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs at up to 4X speed, the MCE Technologies 6X Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive is compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media including DVD±R/RW + Dual/Double Layer, DVD-RAM, and CD-R and CD-RW. In addition, the MCE Technologies 6X Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive will even read HD DVD-ROM discs as well as burn LightScribe labels onto compatible DVD or CD media. The drive has a 4MB buffer for writing Blu-ray Disc and DVD media and has built-in Buffer Underrun protection. The drive includes a 25GB Blu-ray BD-RE rewritable disc for instant storage starting at $499, or bundle it with Toast 9 Titanium + Toast BD/HD Plug-in for $599, or get the full professional Blu-ray production package and bundle it with Adobe Premier Pro CS3 for $1,295.00.

Blu-ray SuperDrive

Store up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of HD video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. The MCE 6X Blu-ray Disc Internal Recordable Drive for the Mac Pro and Power Mac incorporates a state-of-the-art blue-violet laser and ushers in the next generation of optical disc storage. The drive also writes to all DVD±R/RW + DL (Double/Dual Layer) media, DVD-RAM, and CD-R/RW media and is compatible with all Apple's iApps.

Blue-Violet. 405nm.

The figure to the right shows the difference in spot size between a Blu-ray laser and standard DVD recording laser. The smaller, tighter Blu-ray spot size means more spots (data) can be recorded to the disc resulting in data capacities of 25GB and 50GB per Blu-ray disc.

Optional Toast 9 Titanium + HD/BD Plug-in

The MCE 6X Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive for Apple Mac Pro and Power Mac can be bundled with multi-award winning Toast 9 Titanium + Toast HD/BD Plug-in for only $100 extra... a savings of over 20% off the retail price!. The HD/BD Plug-in will allow you to create your own Blu-ray movies with custom menus playable on set-top Blu-ray players as well as Playstation 3 game consoles. Toast 9 Titanium manages all Blu-ray recording functions for the drive and incorporates a special feature called Toast Dynamic Writing. When used with a Blu-ray rewritable disc (BD-RE), Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive – drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Blu-ray burning is here today. Toast 9 Titanium also includes comprehensive backup software which allows for manual, as well as scheduled backups to your MCE Blu-ray Internal Recordable Drive. It will even automatically manage disc spanning should all your data not fit on one disc.