[Mark Suszko] "I'm sure the delay is because Apple and Sony's lawyers are still in the thunderdome over rights and piracy and royalties, etc. and not so much over engineering issues. But meanwhile BD technology for our community's needs is suffering greatly. "
I'm pretty sure it's over engineering issues. I've you've followed any of my threads on the Encore forum, creating a BluRay authoring tool is far and away an incredibly complicated matter and I'm sure that's one of the reasons Apple has not updated DVDSP to include BluRay authoring.
I have been contacted by numerous folks in the commercial BluRay industry, including folks working at some major studios in Hollywood, who have explained to me the incredibly complicated matter that is BluRay authoring. As one described it to me, "A 16 year old can create DVD Authoring software, that's easy, BluRay is a whole different matter. Especially if you want to get into BD-J authoring."
DoStudio is the cheapest option out there right now to make a BD-J and to make BluRays period with fully featured menus. So that's where we're going as I honestly don't see Apple adding BD Authoring to SP anytime in the near future. It would most likely be incredibly limited and then folks would whine about the limited functionality.
[Mark Suszko] ""archive to BD" utility."
You can already do that with Toast 8. Just install the BluRay Burner and archive away just like you use Toast now to archive to DVDs.
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