If you need/want an internal Blu-ray recordable drive for the MacBook Pro, you only have one: MCE Technologies (MCE) offers one that can record data and high definition video to 25GB, 50GB, and 100GB Blu-ray recordable discs.


What's more it can playback commercial Blu-ray movie titles directly on the MacBook Pro with included software. In addition to recording and playing high capacity Blu-ray media, the drive is also a full-fledged SuperDrive and reads and writes all CD and DVD media. The Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive is compatible with all models of MacBook Pro released since late 2008 with a built-in optical drive.

The MCE Internal Blu-ray Recordable Drive for MacBook Pro can record data and video to high capacity 25GB single-layer and 50GB dual-layer write-once Blu-ray BD-R media at 6X (27MB/sec), to 100GB triple-layer write-once Blu-ray BD-R XL media at 4X (18MB/sec), and to 25GB, 50GB, and 100GB rewritable BD-RE discs at up to 2X (9MB/sec). The drive includes Mac Blu-ray Player software for the playback of commercial Blu-ray movies natively on the Mac.

Commercial Blu-ray movie playback requires an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.0GHz, or faster, and at least 2GB of RAM. The drive is compatible with Apple's DVD Player application for the playback of DVD movies as well as with Finder Burning for burning Blu-ray Discs, DVDs and CDs at the Finder level. The drive is bootable and is fully compatible with all DVD and CD recordable media on the market today and can record to standard DVDR media at up to 8X (11MB/sec) speed, to DVDR DL (Double/Dual Layer) media at up to 4X (5.5MB/sec) speed, to DVDRW at up to 6X speed, and to CD-R and CD-RW media at up to 24X speed.

The retail price is US$199. For more info go to http://tinyurl.com/q256az9 .