Internal Blu-Ray drive for the MacBook Pro
 

http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/...drive.upgrade/
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04...tmac/index.php

Cool!
 

great for burning, but will you ba able to playback bl-ray movies and have them play as full 1080p out put through the macbook/Pro's dvi out?

My guess is no. The dvd player in a macbook/pro is just that: a dvd player.

Maybe third party bluray play back support will be needed.

After NAB or WWDC I expect that the new macs will support BOTH HD DVD and Blu-Ray as Apple has claimed they will be supporting both formats since both use H.264.

Yeah, but I would love my current 1.83 core duo macbook pro to be able to play back bluray from either store bought movies, or ones I edit then burn to bluray disc via FCP.

Cool none the less.

There are a lot of people complaining about Apple not releasing a built to order Blu-Ray/HD DVD option and the obvious conclusion is that Apple doesn’t want to take sides yet but my theory is that it’s probably because of DRM issues.

I think that they will soon unvail (Likely with Leopard in June) a Dual-Blue Drive that does both. Apple is not just going to keep offering Dual-Layer SD drives. They have claimed to support both formats, and I expect either a combo drive, or the option of either especially now that the Mac Pro's have two slots.

Update
 

The website for the fastmac BD drive mentions NOTHING about playing back movies. Frankly I don't think it can because of HDCP and AACS issues. The thing is why are journalists "assuming" that it does?

It may not be the best Blu-Ray burner but 500 dollars is not a bad deal
http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php