Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Blu-ray Support in Mac OS X 10.5.6?

MorphingDragon said:
Its your fault for watching a movie in a rush. ;)
Click to expand...

I know you winked but this is a serious issue for me. I will never watch a movie unless I know I can finish it in one sitting and I can watch it uninterrupted with good video and audio quality.

I have a long line up of movies that I need to watch, and I am waiting for my house to be built since my projector based system is not yet setup ever since I moved from Kansas City to Florida.

Oh well, I am in the minority!
 
bommai said:
I know you winked but this is a serious issue for me. I will never watch a movie unless I know I can finish it in one sitting and I can watch it uninterrupted with good video and audio quality.

I have a long line up of movies that I need to watch, and I am waiting for my house to be built since my projector based system is not yet setup ever since I moved from Kansas City to Florida.

Oh well, I am in the minority!
Click to expand...

I save my blu-rays for my sim2, too.
 
it's a pain in the arse tbh. i don't feel like buying two copies of the same movie, and yet they want us to be responsible legal people online? this just makes me turn to the torrents...
 
tmofee said:
it's a pain in the arse tbh. i don't feel like buying two copies of the same movie, and yet they want us to be responsible legal people online? this just makes me turn to the torrents...
Click to expand...

What's a pain the arse?
What makes you buy two copies of the same movie?
 
i'm just saying, getting a hi def version of a film and not being able to watch it on our laptops.. and the "digital copies" are mainly a joke..
 
tmofee said:
i'm just saying, getting a hi def version of a film and not being able to watch it on our laptops.. and the "digital copies" are mainly a joke..
Click to expand...

Did you know you couldn't play it on your laptop when you bought it? Would it work on your laptop if you bought one with a bd drive and running an OS that could play it? Can you play it on your toaster? Your clock radio? Why is any of this the content producer's fault?

The good news is that an increasing number of bd's come from dvds, and Universal is publishing dvd/bd flippers (let's hope they actually work).
 
tmofee said:
i'm just saying, getting a hi def version of a film and not being able to watch it on our laptops.. and the "digital copies" are mainly a joke..
Click to expand...

Just rip it with Make MKV then you're ready to play it on your lap top in 1080p. If you want one for Apple TV, iPod, iPhone (or whatever) just use Handbrake to get it to those sizes. It's very easy to get Blu-rays onto Macs.
 
NANO::

i googled VDSL2 and the wiki states this: under australia

On April 7 2009 The Australian Government announced it would invest $42 billion into building a High-Speed National Broadband Network Delivering VDSL2 Technology over FTTH (Fibre To The Home) Network infrastructure with speeds of 100Mbit/s to 90% of the Australian population. The Network will deploy a optical fiber cable from the exchange to the communications pit at the front of the customers premises, in current houses which have only twisted pair copper VDSL2 will be used. In new homes using a Network transmission device the optical fiber cable will become a Ethernet cable which will run inside to customers premises and into their computer or a Ethernet router. Deployment is expected to begin in Tasmania by July 2009.
EFTel has commenced a rollout of VDSL2 capable MSAN (Multi-Service Access Node) technology, with ADSL2+ blades, to exchanges across Australia as part of their BroadbandNext network. As of June 2009, EFTel have successfully installed MSANs in 60 exchanges Australia wide.
As of December 2008, iiNet is trialing VDSL2 in a FTTB (Fibre To The Building) deployment to residential apartment blocks with a view to further deployments in 2009.
Private network deployment of VDSL2 has been occurring since 2007 in apartment blocks using Zyxel based product across Australia.
TransACT Communications in Canberra is currently in the early stages of upgrading its VDSL network to VDSL2, utilising Ericsson EDA's.
Click to expand...
so fibre will be straight to the street, then most people will have to use copper cable with vdsl. i might have to save up and get our house changed over to fibre to reep the benefits. @1km (which is about how far i am) VDSL2 only hits 50mb/s, i want more!


rhett7660 said:
Me to..
Click to expand...

it sucks aye! im lucky im not one of them haha
 
DoFoT9 said:
NANO::

i googled VDSL2 and the wiki states this: under australia


so fibre will be straight to the street, then most people will have to use copper cable with vdsl. i might have to save up and get our house changed over to fibre to reep the benefits. @1km (which is about how far i am) VDSL2 only hits 50mb/s, i want more!
Click to expand...
Well, it is 1 fibre line per dwelling (FTTH), so don't get greedy. ;) :p

Here it's FTTC at best. :eek: And I had to have the port replaced a couple of months ago. Alls OK again, but I was having withdrawl symptoms for about 24hrs waiting for the repair. :p
 
Cave Man said:
I've had half a dozen hard DISK drives fail. I've never had an optical disc fail.
Click to expand...
All disks are a failure. from floppy drives, hard DISK drives to DVD and blu-ray. only nand can save you.
There's a reason why all of my critical documents are on three Blu-ray discs in my bank's vault.
Click to expand...
wait until you have 40GB of critical documents on a blu-ray disk and you scratch it. I'm not arguing with you. I'm in the data recovery industry and I fix lasers. Collectively, our industry is in agreement that all disk based media is severely flawed. The military knows it- that's why they used tape drives for the last 50 years.
 
lPHONE said:
All disks are a failure. from floppy drives, hard DISK drives to DVD and blu-ray. only nand can save you.
wait until you have 40GB of critical documents on a blu-ray disk and you scratch it. I'm not arguing with you. I'm in the data recovery industry. Collectively, our industry is in agreement that disk media is severely flawed. The military agrees, that's why they use tape drives.
Click to expand...

Right. BD should be used only for secondary (backup, sneakernet) storage and, of course, movie delivery.
 
cmaier said:
Right. BD should be used only for secondary (backup, sneakernet) storage and, of course, movie delivery.
Click to expand...

How about I take that NAND flash and stick in the same pocket as my cellphone or brush it against a nice magnet.

Every medium has its flaws.

Film based drives grow fungi, Optical get scratched, magnetic platter get scratched or wiped and NAND gets wiped.
 
nanofrog said:
Well, it is 1 fibre line per dwelling (FTTH), so don't get greedy. ;) :p
Click to expand...
still most people will have copper lines, so :( i wonder how much it costs to upgrade to fibre in the house.

but as ive said, no use getting my hopes up - at +$200Aus a month for most likely 25GB, its not going to be worth it.

Here it's FTTC at best. :eek: And I had to have the port replaced a couple of months ago. Alls OK again, but I was having withdrawl symptoms for about 24hrs waiting for the repair. :p
Click to expand...
hahahaha nerd :cool: :p should have tethered with a mobile or something, thats what i do when we have blackouts etc :D

MorphingDragon said:
How about I take that NAND flash and stick in the same pocket as my cellphone or brush it against a nice magnet.
Click to expand...
would have to be a pretty strong magnet!

Film based drives grow fungi, Optical get scratched, magnetic platter get scratched or wiped and NAND gets wiped.
Click to expand...

what about internet storage :p thats pretty flawless :p
 
DoFoT9 said:
still most people will have copper lines, so :( i wonder how much it costs to upgrade to fibre in the house.

but as ive said, no use getting my hopes up - at +$200Aus a month for most likely 25GB, its not going to be worth it.


hahahaha nerd :cool: :p should have tethered with a mobile or something, thats what i do when we have blackouts etc :D


would have to be a pretty strong magnet!



what about internet storage :p thats pretty flawless :p
Click to expand...

EMR cause by a cellphone's signal is strong enough to interfere with a CRT, which usually have lead casings.
 
DoFoT9 said:
why didnt you just say that then lol! beating around the bush lol grrr :mad:

can it seriously? thats a big flaw :\ like i mean there are that many radiation waves going through us, they would be stronger then mobile could produce!
Click to expand...
Granted its rare, but I swear its happened to me. Usually the currents do nothing and dissipate but transistors are delicate little things.
 
MorphingDragon said:
The microwave signal going to your phone from the tower is a lot more damaging than the cellphone radio. Granted its rare, but I swear it happened to me.
Click to expand...

add up the possibilities of it happening, and add in the ever increasing numbers of people with NAND storage devices in their pockets and it would start happening a lot more then i guess :(

get out your little paranoid microwave statistical machine if you really need to :p ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back