OWC announces external Blu-Ray drive

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced its new line of Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives for the Mac. They're the first Blu-ray external drives on the market that offer four interfaces, including FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0, and eSATA. The OWC Mercury Pro drives feature 4x Blu-ray disc write speed for burning up to 1 gigabyte of data per minute; data transfer rate of up to 150MB per second; plug and play compatibility with both Windows and Mac.

Mercury Pro Blu-ray external drives are compatible with iTunes, iDVD 5, DVD Studio Pro and Roxio Toast, among others and start at US$499.99.