If Macs had Blu-ray?

[zipa]

im sorry for nit-picking, but i have to correct somebody when they are wrong. you can get the BDs onto your (any) mac by ripping to your machine!

Of course you'd need to have a blu-ray drive in your mac to be able to do that, which sort of makes it a moot point...

 

[wikoogle]

So many false statement in that paragraph. What you remember reading is the fact that blu rays are being adopted at a rate almost twice as fast as dvds, and 10 times as fast as VHS.

Or just google it, there's a thousand different news stories comparing blu ray adoption rates to dvd adoption rates. And blu ray sales in the four years since it's been introduced are VASTLY outpacing dvd sales growth their first four years as well.

As for the upgrade not being worth it, decide for yourself. Take a look at this comparison of an upconverted dvd to a blu ray on your MBP and try and convince anyone other than yourself that it's only an insignificant difference.

Edit: The above images were made into thumbnails by the mod here. So you must click on them to see the actual comparison of the images.

The comparison screenshots were done by zonadvd here...

http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=736

Read the article too, it's absolutely devastating as to just how much better blu ray is as a format compared to dvd.

What a flawed comparison. What resolutions were both images ripped at? And they're both downscaled so the HD version is bound to look better when it's squished like that.

lmao, is it fun to be bathing in so much denial?

The actual screenshots and article pound your theory into the ground, but are you seriously arguing that the source didn't know how to rip the images and post them without preserving the quality? And for your reference, EVEN IF they were downscaled poorly, that would actually help the dvd image in the comparison. You would lose some of the finer details being displayed by the blu ray shot while the dvd shot would barely be effected. It would actually make the blu ray shot look much worse than it is in real life, while the dvd image would look just as good.

The comparison screenshots were done by zonadvd here for the below article...

http://www.zonadvd.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=736

Go ahead, take a look, read the article too, it won't bite.

Zonadvd has been doing these comparison for over a decade and has hundreds of thousands of visitors. But of course, I'm sure they're not as smart as you when it comes to knowing how to preserve the image quality.

If you're referring to the fact that they're thumbnails, you have to click on the picture to see the full res version, it was actually the mod here that thumbnailed the images because they were too big. But if you click on the actual picture, it will show them to you in full res.

 

[Tyrion]

Congratulations, your poll consists of geeks who know a graphics card from a toaster. Try to use a bit more common sense when interpreting polls on a tech site as if they somehow represent the will of your average consumer.

In my experience, average consumers are much more interested in optical drives and pure media consumption on their laptops than geeks. Every geek I meet professes his disdain for optical drives and wants to use that space in the laptop for a second HD, or an SSD, or an extended battery. Most average users I talk to can't even imagine owning a laptop without an optical drive (netbooks are the obvious exception), and they're excited by the prospect of being able to watch HD-movies on their laptops, so BR might be a big selling point for the average customer if it's well implemented and if, for instance, Apple posts some simple and concise commercials online (granted, there are also average consumers who just don't know what Blu-Ray is, but even they are into DVDs and they get quite enthusiastic when I tell them about Blu-Ray).

 

[Cave Man]

Of course you'd need to have a blu-ray drive in your mac to be able to do that, which sort of makes it a moot point...

All you need is a FW or USB2 enclosure and you're ready to play Blu-ray Discs on your Mac.

 

[uaecasher]

too costly for me at the moment.

 

[DoFoT9]

Of course you'd need to have a blu-ray drive in your mac to be able to do that, which sort of makes it a moot point...

external bluray player? fw/usb (as caveman said)

$100 and you're ready to go.

stop being so stubborn

 

[zipa]

external bluray player? fw/usb (as caveman said)

I'd expect a seriously expensive laptop to be able to stand on its own and not needing any third-party peripherals. An external blu-ray drive would be acceptable if it came in lieu of the current "subpardrive".

 

[polotska]

While optical media are headed to the technology dustbin, I personally still find them quite useful and find the absence of Blu-Ray drives in Macs lamentable.