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I have been waiting for HD DVD burning (ie: BR) capability in Macs, possibly MacPro, so I can burn the HD movies I have of my kids taken over few years. I don't want to add an aftermarket drive... Currently I need to play the movie straight from the camcorder which is not an ideal option or downgrade it to a regular DVD and then play it.
Any site of when they will be included in Macs?
TIA
 
I have been waiting for HD DVD burning (ie: BR) capability in Macs, possibly MacPro, so I can burn the HD movies I have of my kids taken over few years. I don't want to add an aftermarket drive... Currently I need to play the movie straight from the camcorder which is not an ideal option or downgrade it to a regular DVD and then play it.
Any site of when they will be included in Macs?
TIA
Ive been running this LaCie BD for months now. With Toast9 Im able to do any BD media. Its a firewire and it rocks!!
 
Perhaps they've not heard of neither Holographic Video Disks (HVD) or Protein-Coated Disks (PCD), the latter of which can hold several dozen terabytes of information... and it's a DISK.

Idiots.

Hard drives are discs too. But whatever the details, the point was that optical discs as a consumer format aren't likely to continue to dominate as either delivery format or storage. I'm not too up to date on the current details of PCD but Holographic discs have looked pretty cool in the lab. Neither of which are close to consumer release, and though the technology is cool, they have drawbacks that will keep them in the lab and off the store shelves. In the meantime hard drive capacities will rise while costs drop and the internet will only get faster and more widespread.
We're six months down the road from when this thread started and I still don't see Blu Ray gaining the kind of ground that would establish it as anything more than a niche format.
Don't get me wrong, I've been making my living off of optical discs for the last decade, and I really do like the quality of Blu Ray but if I weren't working in the business I wouldn't even have a BD player.
 
Hard drives are discs too. But whatever the details, the point was that optical discs as a consumer format aren't likely to continue to dominate as either delivery format or storage. I'm not too up to date on the current details of PCD but Holographic discs have looked pretty cool in the lab. Neither of which are close to consumer release, and though the technology is cool, they have drawbacks that will keep them in the lab and off the store shelves. In the meantime hard drive capacities will rise while costs drop and the internet will only get faster and more widespread.
We're six months down the road from when this thread started and I still don't see Blu Ray gaining the kind of ground that would establish it as anything more than a niche format.
Don't get me wrong, I've been making my living off of optical discs for the last decade, and I really do like the quality of Blu Ray but if I weren't working in the business I wouldn't even have a BD player.


Yes Internet is getting faster but now Internet Providers are now adding caps to were you can only download to a set number.. So downloading is not going to be the way to go.. Disc like Blu-ray are not going any where and will grow..
 
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