Also, while in the full screen mode, this toolbar will automatically disappear after a couple of seconds and reappear if you move your mouse. While in Mac Blu-ray Player's playback screen, you can use an HUD styled toolbar that enables you to get a quick overview of the elapsed and the remaining time of the video, along with the name of the currently played video. Though, you do have the option to change Mac Blu-ray Player’s background image via the Window menu. Unfortunately, you can only choose between two almost identical built-in themes, Christmas Day and Maxwell, the only difference between them being the color of the “Play” button. You can use the app’s full screen mode, by clicking on the button located in the bottom right hand corner of the window, or the OS X’s full screen mode, by clicking on the button in the top right corner of the app’s window. The process of switching between the window and full screen interface is quite smooth and quick. Mac Blu-ray Player features a well-designed interface giving you the option to open a video file, a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc. If you decide to buy the app you have to pay $59.95 for a registration code. The only inconvenience of the demo version is the watermark displayed while playing Blu-ray movies. You will have to give up 97.9 MB of your Mac’s hard drive free space if you want to keep the app on your HDD. The installation process is pretty straightforward: you just have to copy Mac Blu-ray Player to your Mac’s Applications folder. The application comes in a 35.4 MB DMG disk image that you have to download and mount in order to install the demo version. Mac Blu-ray Player is a user-oriented OS X Blu-ray disc player, designed to play not only Blu-ray discs but also a wide variety of video, audio and image file formats.

You also need an application capable of playing the disc and here is where Mac Blu-ray Player steps in. Although Apple does not offer an internal or external Blu-ray writer, you can buy one through various online stores. Blu-ray discs have been around since 2006 and have successfully replaced DVDs when it comes to distributing movies and video content in general.

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