It’s an average performer and worked flawlessly with FireWire 400. If you’re looking to add an external optical drive to your Mac, the LaCie d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE Drive is worth considering, especially if you have other LaCie d2 drives on your desktop. But until then, FireWire 400 worked just fine with Toast and USB worked just fine with OS X’s built-in disc burning utility and Compressor. Hopefully, the problem will get resolved soon. LaCie isn’t the only company whose drives failed to complete burns with Toast over USB other drives using the Pioneer BD-203 mechanism had problems as well. In our timed tests, the d2 Blu-ray Drive was a decent but comparatively slow performer, posting third-place finishes when compared to the results of four other recently tested external Blu-ray burners. Aside from Blu-ray media, the drive can burn all flavors of DVD, +/-, RW, DL, as well as CDs and CD-R discs.
USB 2.0 BLU RAY PLAYER FOR MAC SOFTWARE
And while there is some Windows software that allows you to watch Blu-ray movies on your PC, these high definition discs are not viewable on your Mac.
You can burn high definition Blu-ray discs to watch on your home theatre component Blu-ray players by using the latest version of Apple’s Compressor ( ), part of the Final Cut Studio, or with Toast Titanium after downloading and installing Roxio’s $20 High Def/Blu-ray authoring plug-in. Burning data to Blu-ray discs is supported by OS X’s disc burner utility, or through a third-party application like Roxio Toast. The drive can burn 25GB single-layer Blu-ray (BD-R) discs as well as 50GB BD-R DL discs at speeds up to 8X.
Specifications: WRITE SUPPORT - BD: BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-R TL, BD-R QL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-RE TL. If using USB 3.0 ports or if using a Mac computer, its not applicable.
USB 2.0 BLU RAY PLAYER FOR MAC DRIVER
This driver is only for customers using USB 2.0 ports in Windows. Using the company’s stackable d2 case design, this external Blu-ray drive uses Pioneer’s BDR-203 mechanism and requires external power to operate. Download Pioneer BDR-XS05 BD/DVD/CD Player Driver 2.0 (DVD / Blu-Ray / Media Players). LaCie d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE Drive (We also had issues with Toast Titanium 10.) The FireWire connection gave us no trouble. The drive connects to your Mac via FireWire 400 or USB 2.0, though we had some trouble using the USB 2.0 connection with the included Toast Titanium 9 software. Lacie’s d2 Blu-ray Professional BD-R, BD-RE Drive is an external optical drive that can burn data to Blu-ray discs, as well as single and dual-layer DVD and CD media.
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