With the impending release of Windows Vista SP2, I found this PCmag article about Blu-Ray burner support in the Vista OS:
With SP2, Microsoft officially acknowledges that it bet on the wrong horse with HD DVD. Unfortunately, Windows DVD Maker is not updated by the current beta of SP2 to work with Blu-ray. When I tried to burn a video compilation with a Blu-ray burner, I got the message “DVD is not recordable,” though it was a freshly opened BD-R media. Nor is Windows Help yet updated to make any mention of Blu-ray, and the Burn option in Picture and Video Windows Explorer folders doesn’t offer Blue-ray drives as an option. When I tried to burn a video file to a BD-R disc using an LG burner, I got an error saying the file system wasn’t compatible.
Read the rest of this article from PCmag.
Windows Vista was released just before the hi-def wars got decided and it is good that Microsoft is making a way for Blu-ray burner support for the OS. The tests made in the article were for BD-RE, the Blu-ray re-writable optical media. Although blu-ray drives available in the market today are all backward compatible to DVDs and CDs, you still would want to check if you have software to be able to burn on BD-R and BD-RE.
If you own Vista OS, it might be a good time to start thinking about an upgrade. Click here for qualified Blu-ray drives for Windows PC notebooks. For desktops, there are also internal Blu-ray drives available in the market.
