"Blu-ray Movie Playback

Apple's QuickTime software does not (yet) support the decoding and playback of encrypted Blu-ray movies. Therefore you cannot watch commercial (Hollywood) Blu-ray movies using Mac OS X. However, if you have Windows XP or Vista installed on your Macintosh, you can use PowerDVD software to decrypt and watch commercial Blu-ray movies via Apple's BootCamp environment. You will need to ensure you have the latest graphics card drivers for your version of Windows and a HDCP compliant monitor to enjoy the full high definition experience. Further information about Blu-ray playback using PowerDVD can be found on Cyberlink's website @ [www.cyberlink.com]"

From the product description on Fastmac's website. Basically until Apple realizes that even though BD is a "bag of hurt" it's still the High Def source of choice so they sort of need to implement BD support (or a third party steps up), you have to run Windows in order to use it... ahhhh, the irony is killing me.

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