If I install an internal Blu-Ray/dvd optical drive on my PowerMac G5, can I play blu ray discs without hacking the code.
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x), 1.8GHz
No, and I doubt whether the drive would work with a PPC Mac.
As Klaus1 said,
No I would not recomend you try to watch Blu Ray films on a G5 as the combo of Video and CPU hardware even in the fastest G5 does not the 'grunt' to decode and play Blu Ray films, also ALL internal Blu Ray drives are SATA so unless your G5 has SATA hard drive/ DVD controlers on board you need a plug in PCI card.
However if all you want to do is to be able to read/write Blu Ray data discs then as long as you have a SATA connecter free the G5 will be able to handle that - prob will not be able to multi-task at the same time !
Dar.
You will be able to read and write Blu-Ray discs but your G5 has neither the software or the power to play 1080p video.
Can I play blu-ray discs on a PowerMac G5?
