ReadDVD! for Mac 10.5

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAI releases Blu-ray Disc Drive Upgrade Kit for Mac

Kirkland, Washington, 21 March 2008... Software Architects, Inc. announced the release of its WriteBD!™ Blu-ray Disc Drive upgrade kit for Apple computers running Mac OS X 10.5. The WriteBD! Blu-ray Disc Drive upgrade kit provides a simple way to connect and run a re-writable Blu-ray Disc drive on most Apple desktop systems. It includes the WriteBD! software for formatting, reading and writing to re-writable Blu-ray discs, a Serial ATA (SATA) to Parallel ATA (IDE) converter board and cable. Most current generation Blu-ray Disc drives use Serial ATA connectors. Many Apple desktop systems do not have a Serial ATA connector available for connecting to optical disk drives.

Easy to Install
Using the kit's Serial ATA (SATA) converter board to connect your Blu-ray Disc drive to any available Parallel ATA (IDE) connector in your Mac. Install the WriteBD! software, insert a BD-RE disc and the software automatically prompts you through formatting. When formatting is complete, a custom BD-RE disc icon appears in Finder. It’s that easy.

Easy to Use
Simply drag & drop files to and from the disc icon in Finder. Add and delete files just as if you were writing to a hard disk drive. Save directly to disc from an application. There is nothing new to learn.

Files and Discs readable on Mac, Linux and Windows Systems
WriteBD! software uses the UDF format, which is readable on Mac, Windows and most modern Unix and Linux systems. This is ideal for distributing and sharing large audio/video files or large collections of digital photos or other files on other computer systems. Access your old files in the future, regardless of the type of computer system you might be using.

Key Benefits:
• Enables use of large capacity 30 & 60 GByte Plasmon disks on Mac OS 10.4 & 10.5 systems.
• Easy to use: simply drag & drop files to the disc.
• Mobile: UDF formatted disks can be read on most PC's running Windows or Linux.
• Long-term readability: archived files can be accessed from future computer systems.
• Extra Data Integrity: use of UDF v2.5 or 2.6 protects discs from data loss when a directory block fails.

System Requirements:
• Supports all Apple Mac™ Intel and PowerPC based systems running Mac OS 10.4.x or 10.5.x.
• 512 MBytes of RAM.
• Optical Disc Drive bay with Parallel ATA connector.
• Rewritable Blu-ray Disc drive.
• 25 or 50 GByte BD-RE discs.

Pricing and Availability
Price for the kit is $99.00. Available 24 March 2008.