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Blue-ray player on MBP anyone?
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For one, people often output their laptops to larger monitors or HDTVs. If we get blu-ray, I hope we will also get HDMI to make the latter simpler. Another thing is that you sit A LOT closer to your laptop than you would a 40" HDTV. And trust me, if you sit within 3 feet of your laptop screen, the difference is noticable. I've played 1080p video on my 15" WUXGA (1920x1200) screen, which uses every pixel at native resolution (letter boxed of course), and it is noticeably better than dvds that I've played on the same screen.
Question...
Does blu-ray have the data writing capacity that dvd has? I mean lets say i buy an external blu-ray burner today, could I burn 25gb or so data discs for computer back-up?
Not that its logical (go to costco and buy a 250$ 1TB HD, which is a little more cost efficient) but im just curious...
Does blu-ray have the data writing capacity that dvd has? I mean lets say i buy an external blu-ray burner today, could I burn 25gb or so data discs for computer back-up?
Not that its logical (go to costco and buy a 250$ 1TB HD, which is a little more cost efficient) but im just curious...
DESKTOP Blu-Ray READER (and dvd burner) costs $200 OEM,
Laptop readers will cost more.
Yes you can write non-video data on Blu-Ray disks, not worth for most people as the cost is still too high right now.
I thought the very same thing. However, when I ordered my Sony FZ, for the LAPTOP blu-ray READER, it costed me only $200, for the blu-ray burner it costed $400.
You guys are all thinking of why Apple should have an option, at least, for Blu Ray. But THINK about it! What did the Apple MacBook Air show everyone WITHOUT an optical drive whatsoever, despite of its thinness compromising the loss of it? I know for many people, MacBook Airs aren't for everyone, but it shows us something. I remember hearing Jobs say something about us not really needing it, but using iTunes instead for movies, music.... blah blah, etc. And for those "rare times" you might need it, there are external ones. I'm not saying this is true for everyone, but it's a head start to think about abandoning it sometime in the future for something far greater (downloads, wifi extremeites, etc).
Don't get me wrong, but isn't this the same as many years back with the floppy drive? People complained, but got used to the USB port idea. I feel as though this idea about optical drives (Blue Ray intended) is one of the final straws before optical drives are going to be a rarity, and even gone, from computers. Get the idea? I like Blu Ray and all, but maybe it's just that path of technology.
Don't get me wrong, but isn't this the same as many years back with the floppy drive? People complained, but got used to the USB port idea. I feel as though this idea about optical drives (Blue Ray intended) is one of the final straws before optical drives are going to be a rarity, and even gone, from computers. Get the idea? I like Blu Ray and all, but maybe it's just that path of technology.
I think it will be a while before these are mainstream in laptops. Just my opinion, though; and I'd love to be proved wrong.
I can see them adding an expensive BTO option to the macbook pro and the mac pro. They're clearly playing the game in offering the "latest and greatest" no matter how expensive (i.e. SSD drive in MBA), so why not blu ray? I'm glad they didn't do it sooner...imagine they decided on HD DVD?
unless steve can make the downloads from his itunes into a 1080p... i don't hink they can IGNORE the rising of the Blu-ray era.
HD drives won't be available for laptops - mainstream - anytime soon. The cost would be too high and not enough people would use their laptops to watch movies, even if they connected it to a television.
While that may be true on the Apple side of things because of their ridiculous profit margins, its certainly not true on the Windows side.
You can already find notebooks in the $1,000 range that have HD DVD and blu-ray drives.
Many many people also buy laptops as a means of having a portable computer and being able to watch movies on the go. I know of people who specifically bought laptops just for the ability to watch movies on a nice large screen anywhere. Both DVDs and Netflix.
Windows notebooks make it extremely easy to connect to an HDTV. Nearly every notebook PC with a Santa Rosa chipset, or the newer nVidia integrated chipset from around the same time nearly a year ago, have HDMI outputs. All you do is set the notebook next to the TV, plug it in, and plug in the HDMI cable. Vista will ask you what you want to do. You click "display on external monitor only" and you're good to go.