Blu-Ray again

It appears that you can't even buy a Mac Pro with built-in Blu-Ray player (let alone BURNER) - what are Apple playing at? How can companies provide clients with one-off Blu-Ray discs from DVD SP 4 - presumeably they can't!

ADR Sessions

Running Intro ADR sessions this week in class and again, the exercises appear to be going well; it's something which students really seem to get into. Running with ADR Studio again (alongside ProTools) and getting the students to both engineer and record some of the replacement lines for a provided piece of footage. Have just been looking into another piece of software by Gallery called "VirtualVCR" which, as far as I can see, will also provide the visual streamer at the cue point too.

Blu-Ray support in DVD SP 4?

Just been thinking about a new module I am working on which is basically Audio Post Production for TV but aimed at audio type students who have never done any video before. I was just thinking that I should cover Blu-Ray / HD DVD Authoring but it appears that at present, DVD SP 4 on the Mac does not support Blu-Ray. I don't want to use Encore - does anyone know if Blu-Ray is supported by DVD SP 4?

EyeTV

Currently researching products for recording TV programs and then streaming them around the house to various devices. I have come across a product for OSX called "EyeTV" and it looks awesome. Basically, the interface looks more or less identical to iTunes and has the ability to automatically place recordings made into a shared iTunes library for accessing around the house and even more cool, is the fact that it can make recordings available in Safari for devices such as the iTouch / iPhone to stream wirelessly! 

There are different products available, (i.e. Freeview or Digital Satellite) and there is even one with dual tuners so one can record either two different programs simultaneously or record one and view another. I think the setup for me will be a Mac Mini and EyeTV dual tuner setup at the "nerve" centre (the software will even power up the computer when a recording is scheduled) together with either a network storage device, or large USB device plugged into something like Apple's Airport Extreme for sharing the storage (and also providing Wireless-n for iTouch devices etc.). 

You can even log on to the device via the web to program it- nice! The system is very similar to Sky+ obviously, however the problem with Sky+ is that there is no way to stream its content anywhere around the home. You therefore need to watch the recordings in the room where they were made.