Need advice: External Blu-Ray burner for Mac
 

I need to purchase an external Blu-Ray burner for my MBP and I'm having a hard time finding one here in Sydney Australia.

The only solution that I have found is to purchase the: LG BH08 Super Multi Blue / Blu-ray / BD-RW / Internal SATA Drive and then purchase a Welland 3.5 USB/ eSata enclosure.

There has to be another option somewhere?

Can anyone offer some advice.

Thanks

I have this burner, and it works fine with short movies, but I get error codes when I try to burn a longer one. So it's not really reliable. The system requirements of the burner only mention PC, not MAC. But the Mac recognizes the burner and works for short movies. Don't know why longer ones won't work. Just asked in this forum.

Personaly I bough an external version of the Pioneer 203 and I'm happy with it. It has both Firewire 400 & 800, USB 2.0 & eSATA connections. Now the Pioneer 205 is out, it is faster (anyway it is safer to choose the slowest speed for burning Blu ray I think). Check it there:
OWC Mercury Pro FW800/400+USB2+eSata BluRa... (MRF8BDSD12X) at OWC

I have the previous version of that LG drive (i.e. GGW-H20L) in an external case with a SATA-to-(USB2 and Firewire 400) bridge. Works fine connected to Macs via either USB2 or FW400. You'll need Toast (with the Blu-ray Plug-in).

The GGW-H20L is still available new on eBay for half the price of the latest model.

You say "There has to be another option somewhere?" - what is your concern? price? compatibility?

I finally got the LG Super Multi Blue to work properly, well almost. It keeps giving error codes and aborting burning for longer movies, but there's a workaround that works: I make a disk image via Toast first and then burn this image via the 'copy' command in Toast 10. Then everything works fine. I use Panasonic disks.

For added security, I switch all other running apps off ans disable the screen saver while burning.