leo87 said:
I was all ready to watch this tonight, and now I have a problem. I watch MKV by putting it on my portable hard drive and playing it through my Blu-ray player USB. I have a PC laptop, but I wanted to download this on my family's MAC, since I don't like leaving my laptop on all day. So it finishes downloading, and I put my portable hard drive in to transfer the file, and it can't be done, and shows the hard drive is read only.
Anyway to get by this? I guess I'll have to buy a BD-R, and burn it as data disc to transfer to my pc?
Most probably, your Mac is running OSX 10.6 or older, which to my knowledge doesn't have NTFS write support; your external drive is most probably formatted with NTFS. What you need to do is get Tuxera NTFS ($30) or an old copy of the ntfs-3g package + macfuse package on which Tuxera is based. google/torrents are your friend.
EDIT: Actually, it looks like NTFS write support IS in the OSX 10.6, but not 10.5 and below. It's just not enabled by default. See here for instructions:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382
That Apple didn't enable this feature by default should be a strong hint though, so caveat emptor. The comments aren't too reassuring either. So if your HDD doesn't have anything else on it, it's probably worth risking; otherwise I'd just try to hunt down ntfs-3g, which I've used without issue back in my hackintosh days and still use, currently, on my family's Macs