Nope. Blu-ray is a sinking ship. It's not going to have anywhere near the popularity of DVD, ever. Streaming is the future. Sorry you're upset about your investment, but that's the way it is. Discs are slow, expensive, difficult to share, and a waste of physical space. Not to mention environmentally stupid. The difference between a 720p and 1080p video on a large TV, is obvious.
Can you fit a 720p movie on a DVD? No
Can you fit a 1080p movie on a blu ray disk? Yes
To tell you the truth, I don't care if you cannot see the difference between a standard DVD, and 1080p; and even the "amazing" 720p available on netflix. Lets say you bought a subscription for netfix, and you go to your friends house, to watch it. What happens if they have a slow internet connection? Or, no internet connection? (If your TV's downstairs and router upstairs). Or, a TV with no wi-fi on it?
Until I can stream 1080p video, and every TV has wifi; I won't start streaming. Put it this way, I can go to pretty much anyone's house and watch a movie with them, using a DVD. Only the small majority have a wifi enabled TV.
What do you do when you want to listen to music in the car? DO you stream it (joke)? No. You put it on a CD.
The lack of flash isn't about the money. Flash has been on Macs for years and years. That's because it's not Apple's choice, until the only place you can download content from is the app store Lack of flash is about Flash harming the end-user experience. ... AND (not instead) so Apple doesn't lose sales. It's a huge, unnecessary suck on resources. Flash is getting better Have you ever tried comparing the processing resources watching the same video on YouTube (in h.264, no less) in HTML versus in Flash? I sometimes see videos that I want to see; I don't want to boot up my computer, just to see that video. It's ridiculous. How about the resources a Flash-based ad uses versus a non-Flash based ad? Or webpage?
iOS devices are industry leaders in battery life, which is a HUGE part of the user experience, and Flash utterly wrecks battery life. Give the user a choice, and then the user can make up *their* mind, if they want to view that 10 minute video on the internet. And if you really, really want Flash, you can use Skyfire, It works, on some sites - but barely or jailbreak your phone. Frash doesn't work on videos.
Not to mention, you can play HTML-based games on the web anyway, or a host of free game apps that Apple makes nothing on. Your blindly cynical interpretation makes no sense. Why does my interpretation make no sense? Would you work for no money? No. Unless you're a 11 year old, who is highly stuck. Steve Jobs wants money, and if you can't see that, then you're effectively controlled by him. He introduced the Mac App Store, so that people can buy apps of their, not from other sources.
This is plainly ridiculous. You can get HD content on your Mac zillions of ways that Apple makes $0 on. Ever heard of Netflix? YouTube? Amazon? Vimeo? HD cameras? ABC, CBS, Hulu? Who do you trust, if you were new to computers: Apple or a random company on the internet?
Heck, Apple doesn't even do anything to prevent you from using torrents to download HD video illegally. Only a matter of time - you can't get uTorrent from the Mac App Store.
Also, re: your complaint about 720p in the iTunes Store: do you have any understanding of bandwidth at all? Yes, I do.That's the point! I can't get full HD from iTunes, because of bandwidth issue. However, I can get full HD, with great sound, from blockbusters.
The iMac CAN output HDMI. Just get the adapter. It's just not an HDMI INPUT device, because it's a computer, not a television. More money for Apple.
I'm sorry for whatever caused your ridiculously cynical view of the world, but computers are not normally input devices. Just because Apple introduced a feature to allow its laptop owners to better connect to their premium consumer desktop doesn't mean they did it to screw you. Why is it every single time Apple introduces a feature, there's prosumers complaining that they didn't introduce three others along with it? You don't see the negative points, and I'm showing them to you. Streaming may be the future, but it certainly isn't the present. You, obviously, have no interest in the difference in sound quality and picture quality, when it comes to iTunes 720p and full HD, on blu ray disks. You're so trapped in a congested environment, that the logical differences between streaming and BD; that you don't see the negatives. (I see the positives to streaming, but I like quality and I, also, see that Apple wants money, not the best for the customers [flash]).
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