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iTunes 9 to Include Blu-ray Support and iPhone App Organization?
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incorporating last.fm would make genius playlists that much better. as well as finding new music. i'd love to listen to all the independent bands on last.fm through itunes.
But the name iTunes has been around for so long that it is a very recognizable brand. Renaming it wouldn't be worth the effort of having to remarket a new name for iTunes.
How good would it be if we could rip iPod and Apple TV compatible videos from Blue Ray discs using iTunes 9? Unless Apple has convinced the film industry to loosen up on DRM I do not see that happening. Still, adding BD and DVD playback functionality to iTunes would simplify things to the end-user.
I wonder what the second compelling feature of the next iMacs is supposed to be? Since it is supposed to cater to semi-professionals/prosumers my best guess is a SATA port because that would give users access to the fastest external drives.
I wonder what the second compelling feature of the next iMacs is supposed to be? Since it is supposed to cater to semi-professionals/prosumers my best guess is a SATA port because that would give users access to the fastest external drives.
Too all the people saying this I have something to say, if iTunes is rewritten in cocoa 64bit even if they add a lot of things to it, it will be much much faster especially on snow leopard.
That may be true but we don't if it will be 64bit. There was nothing in BGR that said as much. I hope we do see it though. iTunes is the one Mac app that is desperately in need of a performance upgrade. Going by just what was stated in the article it certainly looks like iTunes will get more bloated by unnecessary features.
hate to break it to you kid, but they said the same thing about video support back at v6.0
wait so iTunes, does have dvd player support? or can it just play the movies you download or import?
who said anything about DVD? I said videos. Doesn;'t mean DVD.
well, how can video support, be used for back up stuff... now dvd and cd's can be used, but video support has nothing to do with back stuff up, blu-rays can be used to back up ur music... because blu-ray aren't just for video, you can put all kinds data on them...
so how could they have said the same thing in iTunes 6.0, about video support, because videos dont back stuff up
Havn't you seen my posts on the imac thread?
and I said, people said the same thing when Apple added video support to itunes. Let see, if i',m correct with support for video being at 6.0, that was back in 2004/2005, so I was just entering high School (Fall 2004)
Pays to listen man
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and I said, people said the same thing when Apple added video support to itunes. Let see, if i',m correct with support for video being at 6.0, that was back in 2004/2005, so I was just entering high School (Fall 2004)
Pays to listen man
first of all, they would have to add dvd support, to iTunes before they add Blu-ray, and that would defeat the purpose of quicktime...
and i said that blu-ray support means that they will just be able to back up with blu-ray not play blu-ray... how can u say the same thing about video support... are you saying people said that "if you think people are going to add video support your crazy, video support will just be used for backing things up in itunes"... how does that make sense
Another reason I don't think BlyRay playback support is likely in iTunes is that Apple has been keeping the Windows and Mac features equal for some time.
I don't see Apple wanting to code and support BluRay playback on Windows running iTunes (it'd probably increase their license costs, as well).
If BueRay support is forthcoming, it'll probably be disc burning (maybe even video burning to DVD/Bluray formats) like others have said.
I don't see Apple wanting to code and support BluRay playback on Windows running iTunes (it'd probably increase their license costs, as well).
If BueRay support is forthcoming, it'll probably be disc burning (maybe even video burning to DVD/Bluray formats) like others have said.
You really don't get it do you? We are not talking about backing up, so get that out of your little mind.
note, movies, meaning video. Not backing up. This is what i'm talking about. itunes used to only be a music media player, and at one time never had the itunes [music] store.
So when Apple decided to add video support to itunes, that only did music, some said the same thing you did. they didn't go on and on about backing up.
duhh?
why add suppoort for backing up when it could play it also.
and if I recall, I once poped a dvd in my computer, open itunes and it played it. Perhaps its an issue only on macs?
AHHH... Finally! Someone who realizes that before any of this bloat can truly run properly, itunes needs 64 bit support! Snow Leopard is completely based around the 64 bit architecture so it would make perfect sense for itunes 9 to be x64.
because, as of right now... apple could have added dvd support for playing them on itunes too... but iTunes only has DVD Backing up support, they choose not to do it with dvd's why would they change with blu-ray... and if they do that it would defeat the purpose of Quicktime
Actually, you are wrong. There is no ATSC standard for '768p'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_(standards)
1366x768 is just the native resolution of your display. Anything whether it be 1920x1080i, 1280x720p, or 720x480p is scaled to it.
You can buy 1440x900 720p TVs too.
All of this will be moot anyway as native 1920x1080p TVs are so commonplace now
Thank you for saying what I was not going to lol. I don't like arguing so I wasn't going to comment any further on this but thanks for pulling up the info and posting it to show him what I meant.
and whats up with that screenshot ?
