It wasn't long ago when storing my entire music collection in my pocket was thought of as impossible.
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Apple in Talks with Sony about Blu-ray Drives
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It wasn't long ago when storing my entire music collection in my pocket was thought of as impossible.
I'm sure this has already been said, but what with so much anti-Microsoft sentiment being prevalent now-a-days do you not think that Microsoft backing HD-DVD may have been a contributing factor in it [HD-DVD] not taking off in the first place?
Just a thought!!
I'd rather do without Blu-ray on the Mac than have all the horrendously unstable, system-slowing DRM that it requires implemented on Mac OS X.
Look at the huge mess Vista is; this is mostly because of all the DRM required to satisfy the movie studios.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, people. We can watch Blu-ray on our televisions. Keep this DRM crap off our computers. There's already some but we're nowhere as bad as Vista.
Look at the huge mess Vista is; this is mostly because of all the DRM required to satisfy the movie studios.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, people. We can watch Blu-ray on our televisions. Keep this DRM crap off our computers. There's already some but we're nowhere as bad as Vista.
Maybe Apple have been playing it uber safe this time around - hence no "real" updates to the likes of DVD Studio Pro nevermind the Mac Pros et al.
I'm guessing we may now see DVDSP5 with full Blu-Ray authoring capabilities now that HD-DVD is out of the way - here's hoping as it's been quite some time!!!
Computer choice
I have to get a computer within this week for work. I'm going to get both imac and MBP, but not at the same time. Which one should i buy and which one should i wait for. the imac will be at my office but the MBP will be for both home and office. I usually buy computer every 3-4years, so i wouldn't mind waiting for the blu-ray.
Thank you
I have to get a computer within this week for work. I'm going to get both imac and MBP, but not at the same time. Which one should i buy and which one should i wait for. the imac will be at my office but the MBP will be for both home and office. I usually buy computer every 3-4years, so i wouldn't mind waiting for the blu-ray.
Thank you
I guess I am one of those idiots who hasn't touched his dvd player since online move rentals became a reality and thinks the quality is 'good enough for me' and never watches the so called bonus material any more (which is usually a joke anyway) and never buys movies just rents them.
Blu-ray has arrived at the party too late for me.
Yeah except that blank media is $50 per disk, the player is $500+, and you can get the same amount of storage at a cheaper price by buying a few DVD's. I'm not sure why everyone seems to think Blu Ray is some Godsend.
And also what the heck is with this "war" that was "raging" between HD and blu ray? Sounds like a bunch of geeks with nothing better to do but to argue over a disc format (but thats mostly the kind of people you run into on here). Insults being thrown back and fourth on message boards about it, amazing.
Removed the typical Americanism from your post.
I think that optical media still has a bit of a market... being as a total digital download market is still on the horizon and Blu-ray is just about here.
No, with all due respect, users know what they need. At the rate they're going, Apple Computer, uh Apple Incorporated, will be the last computer maker to have Blu-ray devices in their computers. Think Different. Give people choices. If you don't want Blu-ray, don't tick it off on the order page.
My friend in Japan has a 30Mbps optical line and he's 'only' in Nagoya (as opposed to being in Tokyo.
Looking to get a macbook pro in June/July with the new processors or what not, even the possibility of an add-on Blu-Ray drive for a modest price ($200-300) would be awesome.
The same thing over here, I don't see BRDs as the archiving format of the future, as DVDs were, and BRD are still quite expensive since you can only get a reader for $250 or so. To get that writer and reader you're still going to pay close to $450 or more.
Not that BRDs aren't going to be welcomed by the tech community, I am just curious to see how long it will take for BR to become a universal standard that everyone uses all the time like DVD and CD media. If it's just going to be movies being sent back and forth, it may be a lot slower than most people think, especially since not everyone has a good enough TV to watch HD movies on in the first place.
+1 Why is it so difficult for people to understand this ? No "homage" will be owed to Sony. They will not rule the universe. You won't have become a Sony fanboi...
Now that would be a great addition to the Mini. But wouldn't that somewhat cause it to compete with the Apple TV?
I think all of you Bluray naysayers should realize, at the moment, that the majority of the computer using public either has a dial-up connection, or a slow connection, making downloading huge movie file impractical. Sure this can and will change in the (near) future, but it is not there yet for the masses. I don't want to have to buy new hard drives every time I fill one up with movies; it seems like a ridiculous proposition. And if i am storing everything only, where is the security? There is no network on this planet that is hacker proof/safe, while the CD/DVD/BD in it's case is relatively safe, be it from computer intruders, as well as, magnetism and other destructive forces. Why would I want to waste 50 gigs of hard drive space, when i can put it all on a disc and throw it into my desk, especially when hard drive space is more expensive than plastic media?
Some of you folks are not wrong that optical media will eventually become extinct to another form of portable media, but we are in the here and now... in the next ten years (give or take) this will most likely become the standard for movies (like DVDs have been for the last ten years), and physical longterm (potentially incorruptible) data storage. Maybe the next portable storage media watershed will yield something else, but that is no reason to not use the current technology to the fullest; it is here, and it will become relatively cheap in the coming years. I mean the cost of a blank CD-R when it was first released was more than $10 a disc, now you can get a spindle of 100 DVDs for $0.10 a disc. Apple should embrace the technology, especially since every other computer manufacture will, and this technology could be a deciding point for many people that are buying new computers.
Sorry for the wall of text (I could probably go on for hours here), but I feel that some of the ignorance (no offense), and short-sightedness of some of these folks is a little ridiculous; it's like saying I need a heart transplant now or I'll die, but I might as well wait until the technology is better (not that extreme, but I hope you get the point). Also, I would like to pose a question to the naysayers: How could the integration of new technology be a bad thing for Apple?
Some of you folks are not wrong that optical media will eventually become extinct to another form of portable media, but we are in the here and now... in the next ten years (give or take) this will most likely become the standard for movies (like DVDs have been for the last ten years), and physical longterm (potentially incorruptible) data storage. Maybe the next portable storage media watershed will yield something else, but that is no reason to not use the current technology to the fullest; it is here, and it will become relatively cheap in the coming years. I mean the cost of a blank CD-R when it was first released was more than $10 a disc, now you can get a spindle of 100 DVDs for $0.10 a disc. Apple should embrace the technology, especially since every other computer manufacture will, and this technology could be a deciding point for many people that are buying new computers.
Sorry for the wall of text (I could probably go on for hours here), but I feel that some of the ignorance (no offense), and short-sightedness of some of these folks is a little ridiculous; it's like saying I need a heart transplant now or I'll die, but I might as well wait until the technology is better (not that extreme, but I hope you get the point). Also, I would like to pose a question to the naysayers: How could the integration of new technology be a bad thing for Apple?
Sony?
Sony??
Sony???
All you Blu-Ray supporters are about to find out why HD-DVD was, in fact the best format.
Get out yer wallets everybody.....
Rich
Sony??
Sony???
All you Blu-Ray supporters are about to find out why HD-DVD was, in fact the best format.
Get out yer wallets everybody.....
Rich
Its about EFing time jesus christ on a stick, by the time this happens LCD is obsolete in a year or 5, before the Laser TVs come out.
We are so far behind this is BS
No it wouldn't it would suck and something new is coming out in a few months, it will be pointless. Stop asking for stuff for old machines, get a job or buy a new one seriously its worth the MONEY!
We are so far behind this is BS
No it wouldn't it would suck and something new is coming out in a few months, it will be pointless. Stop asking for stuff for old machines, get a job or buy a new one seriously its worth the MONEY!
The big issue is cost, and maintenance for me and a few others. Why pay full price for a DVD that I am probably only going to watch once? Then, why go to a Red Box and pay $1 for movie, that may not play because some jerk scratched the disk, or it gets half way through then starts f**king up, then drive all the way back to the Red Box to drop it off? And why buy an actual DVD, watch it once, then have it fermenting on the shelve for years before some friends or my fiancee want to watch it again real quick?
If it's a movie that just looks interesting I will download it or rip it from a friend. If it's a niche type of movie or TV show with an entire season and bonus material then I may pay full price, but for the most part, buying and maintaining DVDs is a bit of a nuisance to me.
As for others... I think they will hop on the download bandwagon because they don't want to buy a BR play, they are more enticed by Apple TV and movie downloads (and it's easier), and they don't want to fall into the "Buy this player and disc format NOW because it's cool and high quality" only to have it change on them in a decade and their entire collection of media is now OBSOLETE.... aka... Betamax, VHS, Vinyl, 8-Track, Cassettes, and now for the most part CDs and DVDs.