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Blu-ray Support in Mac OS X 10.5.6?
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A few weeks ago there was a rumor here that Apple was gonna be adding a special video chip into its new machines. Speculation by several people in that thread was that this special video chip is designed to handle the necessary bluray playback copy protection specifically so that Apple won't have to infest OS X with that end to end DRM crap.
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I also hope said chip enables hardware h.264 encoding to speed up HD video encoding, ala Elgato Turbo.264.
Pity that so few Macs support HDCP in their video cards, and the Cinema Displays sure as hell don't.
Yup, people predicting the imminent death knell for Blu-Ray aren't taking this into account, nor the number of people who want a huge number of instantly accessible films at their fingertips. Until you can pick up extremely cheap, 10tb+ hdd's, Blu-Ray has a place. Pretty much guaranteed to be the last physical storage medium, but I think it'll be around for a while.
Btw, I heartily recommend the ISP Be-Unlimited (ran by BT). *Truly* unlimited downloads. I share a connection with my brother, we easily consume about 120gb+ a month, no throttling. We only live a stones throw from the exchange too, so we regularly get a 24mb connection. Not that expensive either.
i think there will be a big "blue-event" in january (mwsf) and apple will release macpro with bluray and also new ACDs with hdmi/hdcp.. (im praying for that)
can someone pls confirm, when will macbooks be out??
Late Sep
Oct 14th
Late Oct
Or Jan 09
?????????????
I am totally confused with these rumors, but how can u all say macbook is coming when apple have not even setup any ad or said abt macbooks in his keynotes??
And they have also not made any announcement abt keynote oct 14?
Late Sep
Oct 14th
Late Oct
Or Jan 09
?????????????
I am totally confused with these rumors, but how can u all say macbook is coming when apple have not even setup any ad or said abt macbooks in his keynotes??
And they have also not made any announcement abt keynote oct 14?
Streaming movies are already a reality. The only thing stopping streaming movies from becoming huge is the media companies.
There's already hulu, Apple TV, on-demand cable, and many others who already are streaming high quality movies on demand.
http://www.hulu.com/browse/alphabetical/movies
https://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/10/apple-notebook-updates-on-october-14th-120gb-macbook-air-hdd/
https://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/15/macbook-shipments-have-begun/
Not quite...try storing all your downloads on a harddrive.
Blue Ray is here to stay until another physical media takes its place.
Its called, storage, backup, movies...how many can you fit on a harddrive.
Physical media will never go away...unless you surrender your rights to own and keep your own content. (i.e., your software, movies are all loaded on someone elses host harddrive...and boom its gone if you dont want to pay a monthly license fee.)
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By the way, Blu ray support is long in the tooth - apple should have added it years ago.
BE is not owned by BT, it was a separate company until last year when it was taken over by O2.
This is overdue by now, and I'm guessing will be one of the 4-5 "big" announcements Steve Jobs makes during the Keynote at MWSF in January.
Really looking forward to this actually, accumulating a nice little BD library already..
All the naysayers with the "Bluray will be dead in five years!" - so will most of the hardware you're using right now - that doesn't make it pointless.. Personally I'd say BD has a few years longer than that - it has taken off and people want things that show off their HDTVs. Downloads currently aren't as high quality and the storage issues aren't trivial.. Physical media is here to stay for a while at least.
BD isn't "Sony's format". AND it's a perfectly good format.. I don't know what people have against convenience and compatibility.
I'm pretty sure my imac has HDCP on the 9800GS..? I hope so - i'd like to get a BD burner.
All the naysayers with the "Bluray will be dead in five years!" - so will most of the hardware you're using right now - that doesn't make it pointless.. Personally I'd say BD has a few years longer than that - it has taken off and people want things that show off their HDTVs. Downloads currently aren't as high quality and the storage issues aren't trivial.. Physical media is here to stay for a while at least.
BD isn't "Sony's format". AND it's a perfectly good format.. I don't know what people have against convenience and compatibility.
I'm pretty sure my imac has HDCP on the 9800GS..? I hope so - i'd like to get a BD burner.
Here is the deal, I have used mac for over 17 years and there is a reason why it is better, and no it's not the machine and it's architecture but the OS built around a specific architecture and the fact that I don't have to be Mr. Know It All to do simple things.
I use a PC at work and the S**t I have to go through to do the simplest task is ridiculous. Both machines have there strengths but what microsoft forgot was that there are far more casual users out there than Nerds, Geeks, Programmers. People that just want to use a computer and not feel lost and stupid like my mom and se's a pretty smart woman, and that's all apple is trying say... no 5 different iteration of the same OS but one good OS on an Architecture built for it. If Microsoft got smart they would actually get with the program. It wont be long before Linux takes over and apple follows suit.
I use a PC at work and the S**t I have to go through to do the simplest task is ridiculous. Both machines have there strengths but what microsoft forgot was that there are far more casual users out there than Nerds, Geeks, Programmers. People that just want to use a computer and not feel lost and stupid like my mom and se's a pretty smart woman, and that's all apple is trying say... no 5 different iteration of the same OS but one good OS on an Architecture built for it. If Microsoft got smart they would actually get with the program. It wont be long before Linux takes over and apple follows suit.
Physical media will go away eventually. As many people here pointed out, it's probable that BD (Blu-Ray) is the last optical media. The efforts are going into cloud computing so your data would be everywhere and you only need a device to access it, be it a pocket-sized, laptop-sized or workstation-sized. Look at Google Docs, your data is on their servers and you can access it from anywhere.
For this to happen though, bandwidth would have to increase dramatically, both on cellular networks and wire-based ones. Personally, I don't like sharing all my stuff with the rest of the world like that though...
I'm very pleased to at last be able to confirm once and for all that new macbooks will be released later.
Once almighty Steve says that Blu-ray will be included to Macs (and in his typical style tells how awesome it is and how good 1080p looks), most people here will start to support Blu-ray. Until that happens, it's the same old 'Apple doesn't support it yet, so it isn't cool' story.
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I have been wondering when they were going to do this. I can't wait to see Blu-Ray drives in new Macs.
I have been wondering when they were going to do this. I can't wait to see Blu-Ray drives in new Macs.