Apple Seeds Another New OS X 10.5.7 Build

[Cave Man]

Blu-ray should be a technological decision. A decision based solely on whether or not a computer maker wants to continue to be perceived as cutting edge and thereby, command a JUSTIFIABLY higher premium in price by being so.

Not a political one based on solely monetary ramifications. Such as, "If we put Blu-ray in our computers, it will cut into our iCrap iTunes store market for downloaded movies in crap resolution."

I think it's more than this. As I understand it, Blu-ray playback software must constantly parse the disc/drive for the encryption key. This is something that must happen at the OS level, and this can have a negative impact on OS performance for other tasks. With DVDs, this check is only done once, at the beginning of playback.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, I'm just saying it's one more issue with Blu-ray terms for computer playback.

 

[AidenShaw]

Bfd

I think it's more than this. As I understand it, Blu-ray playback software must constantly parse the disc/drive for the encryption key. This is something that must happen at the OS level, and this can have a negative impact on OS performance for other tasks. With DVDs, this check is only done once, at the beginning of playback.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, I'm just saying it's one more issue with Blu-ray terms for computer playback.

Do you really care if a bit of additional CPU load is generated while you are watching a BD?

Red herring to justify the "bag of hurt" nonsense. Windows systems seem to be able to deal with this, but the innovators at Apple cannot?

 

[Cave Man]

Do you really care if a bit of additional CPU load is generated while you are watching a BD?

Not at all. I mean, who watches a Blu-ray movie while doing other things? Not many, I suspect.

Red herring to justify the "bag of hurt" nonsense. Windows systems seem to be able to deal with this, but the innovators at Apple cannot?

There are reports that Windows does take a hit with Blu-ray, but since I don't follow that OS all that closely I don't know the details. Again, I don't disagree with you - I think Apple's chief concern is iTS competition (even though they don't sell HD720 movies). I'm ready for Blu-ray on my Mac. I'm tired of booting into Windows to rip Blu-ray movies for playback on my Mini.

 

[xbjllb]

I think it's more than this. As I understand it, Blu-ray playback software must constantly parse the disc/drive for the encryption key. This is something that must happen at the OS level, and this can have a negative impact on OS performance for other tasks. With DVDs, this check is only done once, at the beginning of playback.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, I'm just saying it's one more issue with Blu-ray terms for computer playback.

Thanks. I didn't know that. I think though that a computer manufacturer that incorporated a performance stealing feature such as Spotlight continually indexing drives should also be able to find a way to increase performance so that shouldn't matter.

Perhaps that's really what will be under the hood with Snow Leopard.

Thanks!