In the past, we've written about , a workaround that would allow you to watch such movies. With the release of Macgo's , watching a Blu-ray disc on a Mac is finally possible.

Well, in theory anyway.

The $40 software works in conjunction with a third-party Blu-ray player, although the company doesn't list any such players or even system requirements for playback. I hooked up an ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ) to a Mac Pro running OS X 10.6.8 via USB to test it out. (For those who care, it uses the Matshita BD-MLT SW 5584 mechanism.) I downloaded the free trial version of the software, which the site says is free to use for three months. (The also state that the trial version includes a watermark on playback, but I never saw one.)

First off, it's important to note that in order to watch Blu-ray movies, you need to be connected the Internet so that the software can decode the copy-protection used on the discs. So yeah, there's that.

I inserted a Blu-ray movie, Oliver Stone's , and launched the app. I clicked the Open Disc button (there's also an Open File button for playing all sorts of local video files), selected the Blu-ray disc in the Finder, and watched as it quickly loaded and began playing the movie. The software seems to auto-sense the movie file on the disc and plays it without presenting you with a menu--in fact, I couldn't find any way to even the disc's menu to select additional content.