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Confirmed HD-DVD Support in 10.4.9!

kwong2006 said:
Hold on here. Apple supports Blu-Ray, and not HD DVD. How could this be true at all?
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Apple has been on the DVD Forum in support of HD-DVD long before they announced Blu-ray support.

They've also not pledged exclusive support to Blu-ray. They'll support both.
 
Virtualball said:
I was looking around the DVD Player NIB and I found this:

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You are jumping the gun. High-definition content can be burned to regular DVD media. The DVD Player does not contain the official HD-DVD logo. Nor does Apple ship HD-DVD drives with Macs.
 
"Hybrid discs" in DVD player does not refer to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats. A hybrid is a disc that contains a high def version and a Standard def version of the same video file, like the one you can make with DVD studio pro.
 
So if i have an HD-DVD or a Blue-Ray Disk, i can watch it on my MBP?
But i can't rip it... right?
and do you have to have a High Definition Screen on the Laptop for it to truely be High-Def?
 
warfa said:
So if i have an HD-DVD or a Blue-Ray Disk, i can watch it on my MBP?
But i can't rip it... right?
and do you have to have a High Definition Screen on the Laptop for it to truely be High-Def?
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NO, you can't watch it OR rip it!

Not unless you switched out your Superdrive for a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive!
 
Currently you cannot watch a hd-dvd or blu-ray disc on any stock mac. They do not yet contain a drive that supports it.

You can purchase an external blu-ray or hd-dvd drive but currently there is no software on the mac that will let you watch it. You will have to use windows to play them.
 
The Mac Pros have an extra SATA type connector on the motherboard not being used. It is assumed it is for a Blu-Ray drive soon to come...
 
I see. :(


..........But if apple includes HD-DVD or BlueRay in the next MBP's :)
will the High Definition DIsks be enough to get an excellent picture or would you have to have a High Definitoin Screen too?
 
scottlinux said:
The Mac Pros have an extra SATA type connector on the motherboard not being used. It is assumed it is for a Blu-Ray drive soon to come...
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The Mac Pros do have 2 SATA ports for the optical drive bay (as per the Apple schematics). Doesn't particularly matter what type of optical drives, since you can get SATA dvd drives, for example. And as far as I've seen, most blu-ray and hd-dvd drives currently are actually EIDE (PATA) and not SATA.

cheers
 
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