Re: Blu Ray Authoring in Studio Pro

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think Toast 8 can burn data to bluray but not a proper functioning bluray movie with a simple menu. This is what Toast 9 is supposed to do.

You need a bluray burner and you should be good to go with Toast 9.

If you go into any home electronics store you would be hard pressed to be able to buy a standard def tv. It seems HD are almost all that are available and I'd assume 95% of home tv's being purchased are HD sets. The general population should be ready for ALL their content to be delivered on HD media yet only the large production studios have the proper tool sets to provide decent bluray discs.

Is Apple waiting for someone to create a decent bluray authoring program for the mac so they can then step in and buy them up and put their name on it?

CF and SD flash card media is getting to such large capacities and low cost perhaps we will be able to author high definition titles with complex menus to them and we will see home theater monitors coming out equipped with slots and software to read and play content directly off them. Printers have had this capability for several years to print still photos and other files without a computer. The time is ripe for another technology to replace bluray for us small producers who need something affordable for our lower than Hollywood budgets. We need some form of physical media to hand off to clients that can hold a similar amount of data as a bluray disc. DVD's have served the Hollywood Studio market, small producers market and the general public computer users market for the last 10 years but in the 4-5 years since it's conception bluray has failed to provide a solution for all these groups as an HD movie and data content media. It seems Sony's intended use for bluray is distribution of it's copyright protected features from Sony Studios and the playstation games. These other large markets need an alternative.

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