{"id":12010,"date":"2011-09-22T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=12010"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T15:49:08","slug":"play-blu-ray-movies-on-your-mac-without-converting-them-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/12010-play-blu-ray-movies-on-your-mac-without-converting-them-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Blu-ray Movies On Your Mac Without Converting Them First"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lots of people want to watch Blu-ray movies on their Macs. Until now, though, doing so required ripping the movies to your hard drive and playing them that way. Mac Blu-ray Player from Macgo is a movie player that plays back Blu-ray movies from the original source discs.<\/p>\n

How does it work?<\/h2>\n

First you need a Blu-ray drive. Fortunately, OWC just happens to sell some<\/a>. ;-)<\/p>\n

Download & install<\/a> the Mac Blu-ray Player application from Macgo.<\/p>\n

After inserting a Blu-ray disc and launching the Mac Blu-ray Player application, you will be prompted to select your disc or a backed up .iso image. You must <\/em>be connected to the Internet for the application to decrypt the disc for watching (a point brought up when this was discussed in OWC Radio, Episode #57<\/a>). After the application scans the disc, it begins playback.<\/p>\n

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No Internet connection? This is what you’ll be seeing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the early trials with Mac Blu-ray Player didn’t go well for me, as I had incredibly choppy video\u2014even on a Mac Pro with plenty of horsepower and graphics power. With the latest update, though, playback is smooth and the picture looks great and works as advertised on everything I’ve tried it on, including the Mac mini and MacBook Air.<\/p>\n

Macgo uses some open source components, but it is not clear exactly how they decrypt and provide playback of commercial discs. It\u2019s also not clear regarding the legality of how they do what they do, but we do<\/em> know it isn\u2019t violating\/hacking Apple and, to this point in time, we have not seen any legal challenge\/concern publicly addressing this software in general nor in recent reviews by CNET<\/a> and Macworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those who did see this covered by Macworld, we want to re-iterate that in our testing with the current version\u2014versus the older version Macworld had used\u2014we found the product to work as advertised without any issues playing back on several different Macs including iMacs, Mac mini, MacBooks, and Mac Pro via our external Blu-ray drives.<\/p>\n

So now we can watch Blu-ray movies on a Mac\u2026 Why?<\/h2>\n

If you’re using a Mac mini as a media center<\/a>, this is a great application to have along with the OWC Slim Portable 6X Blu-ray Reader<\/a>. However, if you already have a standalone Blu-ray player along with your Mac mini, you may just want to keep using it to take advantage of special features some Blu-ray players have that allow them to sync up to certain audio\/video standards such as frame rate matching and advanced sound output like DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD…all of which results in a better experience for the viewer.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also great for college students who may not have lugged a TV to school with them and do everything with their computer. Now they can watch Blu-ray movies on their Mac using an OWC Blu-ray Solution as well as watch TV using an Elgato TV tuner.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a nice alternative if  you travel a lot and want to watch a movie in your hotel room. You can use it to watch your Blu-ray movies on your MacBook, provided that you’ve sprung for in-room Internet access or can otherwise go online for verification.<\/p>\n

Give it a try.<\/h2>\n

Macgo gives you a free three month trial to try the application before you purchase it for $59.95. If you hurry and purchase before October 1, you get a reduced price of $39.95. Try it out<\/a> and see if it works for you – that’s the beauty of Shareware… :-)<\/p>\n

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OWC has no affiliation with this software and receives no benefit related to this support (other than a benefit we all share in the continued support of these applications). If you appreciate the function or functionality this software offers, we encourage you to support the authors.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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