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July 25, 2006

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Toast looking a little blu?

Posted Jul. 25, ’06, 8:02 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software » Updates

Toast TitaniumOver at one of our other blogs, we’re closely monitoring the situation in the Next Generation Optical Format War (catchily tagged “Format War ‘06”). If you’re looking around, bemused, let me sum up for you: Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD, no holds barred, fight to the finish.

Apple has made no bones about their support of Blu-Ray (they reside on the association’s board of directors) but there have obviously not been any announcements of Apple hardware with Blu-Ray. Third parties will be shipping drives expected later this year, but OS X does not (as of Tiger) support them.

But worry not: when this comes about, the platform’s most venerable disc burning software will already be there. Roxio’s Toast software will not only allow burning to BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) discs, but given OS X’s lack of Blu-Ray support, it will also provide software for mounting and reading from Blu-Ray discs. The Blu-Ray supporting Toast Titanium will come bundled with Blu-Ray drives, with the update presumably expected later for the rest of us.


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