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Itunes 8.2 Contains Blu-ray Support!!! With Pic
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Morgue. Amazon has a huge morgue.
And they weren't a steal because HD-DVD players were on sale here for all of five minutes and nobody bought them because they couldn't care less about HD.
I still buy everything on DVD because it's good enough. I don't need to spend $2k on a TV, $400 on a Blu-Ray player and more on speakers just to see a movie suck with a better quality picture and sound.
I agree with you on the iTunes thing though, just an update to the terms.
I would say that Blu-Ray is on tap for this year. Between the BR Association being formed for cheaper one stop licensing and the fact that they are pushing for cheap $99 Blu Ray drives for the holiday season, I'm sure we'll see Blu-Ray drives.
There are already reasonably priced 3rd Party External drives out there. I think Apple was just holding out for better pricing (both licensing and devices). It looks like it has reached that point.
There are already reasonably priced 3rd Party External drives out there. I think Apple was just holding out for better pricing (both licensing and devices). It looks like it has reached that point.
I think Apple is ready to adopt this... especially since Blu-ray has cut royalties on this by 40% or so.. and this was promised for 2009 and just after Jobs made his statement about the licensing woes. I would like to see playback supported by iTunes, at the very least. 
Obvious
It's obvious that the killer app would be to rip DVD's/Bluray and then compress them for your iphone/touch...obviously you need meta data to do this...gracenote provides this...
It's obvious that the killer app would be to rip DVD's/Bluray and then compress them for your iphone/touch...obviously you need meta data to do this...gracenote provides this...
Forgive me, but isn't saying that it won't happen because it competes with iTunes quite illogical, considering that iTunes works with several different means of acquiring music. I mean its not like Apple turned off support for music CD's even those these compete with iTunes, and you could say the same thing about mp3's acquired illegally through torrents and the like. The fact is, iTunes is designed by its very nature to accommodate material that competes with the iTunes Store. iTunes (or is it 'ITunes' because its the start of a sentence?) and the iTunes Store are not synonymous.
Adding playback support wouldn't add much to the size of the iTunes app. Remember that iTunes is just a front-end for QuickTime playback. DVD Player would need to be upgraded to Blu-ray Player and iTunes would merely need to be able to access it. This, with the addition of smaller application sizes in Snow Leopard, makes this seem like a non-issue to me.
I agree.
This would be ideal. You can, of course, already rip your DVDs as an image but then you have to manually open it before you want to watch it. It would be great to instantly launch a DVD from the iTunes library or a list in Front Row.
And Steve Jobs is also wrong a lot of the time so stop taking him so seriously and have a sense of realism in your mind. Macs would have to have Bluray support soon or they'd be highly frowned upon when BR soon DOES take over as the main optical media for movies.
i wasnt talking about the physical size of the app
i was referring to the amount of 'features' of the app. it already does SO much and i would hate for it to do other things too such as DVD/BD playing. that means you can only do one thing at once.. play a movie.. or play music... or download itunes stuff.. seems silly to me.itunes cant even play dvds AS IS, it would need to get taht feature before BD playback features.
what do you all mean licensing guys
apple is the one of the developers and supporters of blu ray.
they recently started selling hd videos from itunes so they were just chilling.
take a look at the BDA list guys.
blu-ray.com and blu-raydisk.com mention that too also.
- Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) -
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment
apple is the one of the developers and supporters of blu ray.
they recently started selling hd videos from itunes so they were just chilling.
take a look at the BDA list guys.
blu-ray.com and blu-raydisk.com mention that too also.
- Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) -
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Stop talking sense, dammit. No one wants to hear the truth.
The jump from VHS to DVD was huge. Format, medium, quality all vastly improved. DVD to BD gives improved resolution but most other things stay about the same. Same format (digital), same medium (optical disk).
Okay.
They've been there since aught four, before the format war ever began. They were there when it was called "Blue-ray"; before they dropped the "e". Apple being on the board is meaningless.
For some bizarre reason the first time I saw the topic, all I saw was DAMNiatx's post that I quoted. I'm sure you'll understand that if that's all I saw, I thought it was a fake. Weird man.
Interesting stuff!
I have a disagree! I've seen the 480p version of Disney/Pixar's Cars played back on a Samsung UN55B6000 LCD panel (one of their new LED backlit models) and you can distinctly see the "fuzziness" of the picture even when played back on an upscaling DVD player. Compare that against the Blu-ray version of the same movie played back on that same panel: it's so AMAZINGLY sharp you can literally pick out the background details with astonishing clarity. And now with the price of Blu-ray players going steeply downhill soon and the fact there are a lot of HDMI input widescreen TV sets out there, why be stuck with yesterday's technology?