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And once those drives became available, a few enterprising companies who did (presumably) pay up for the keys to decrypt Blu-ray discs released Mac apps to play regular Blu-ray movies with those drives.

Apple never built Blu-ray drives into Macs, and eventually ditched optical drives altogether to focus on selling movies through iTunes.īut some Mac users still need to burn their own Blu-rays or read data off BD discs, so there are plenty of third-party Blu-ray drives available for the Mac.

With his characteristic taciturn restraint, he publicly called the format a " bag of hurt" and likened the groups behind it to the Mafia. Steve Jobs famously hated the licensing hurdles and hefty fees Blu-ray imposed.