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Macbook Pro with Blu-ray?

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kizza

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Apr 4, 2009
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Hey,

Has anyone heard of apple incorporating any Blu-ray technology into their new Macbooks?
 
OllyW said:
And could you please stop posting personal opinion as FACT?
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Tallest please keep posting your opinion but with what apple is offering with downloads I feel the numbers in your prediction are a little mixed up.
You keep saying 2015, are you sure its not more like 2051?
 
bruinsrme said:
Tallest please keep posting your opinion but with what apple is offering with downloads I feel the numbers in your prediction are a little mixed up.
You keep saying 2015, are you sure its not more like 2051?
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I may switch numbers around occasionally, but I didn't mess up that much.

Here's an old post of mine where I explained why I think it'll be 2015 before we see Blu-ray:

Of all the things to ask... I really don't know. Apple doesn't like the licensing and HDCP. While I haven't read too much into it, I don't see a change in the Blu-ray DRM policy any time soon. Perhaps it won't even happen until the 400GB Blu-ray disks are mainstream and we're watching Super Hi-Vision movies with them. Little segue here: Super Hi-Vision compressed to MPEG-2 is 600Mb/s. I don't want to get into all the conversions and size changes here, but this will be available as a release on Blu-ray disks FAR before the U.S. broadband network can manage something of this nature for downloads (much less STORAGE on a computer as Apple wishes!); heck, FIOS maxes out at only 50Mb/s right now! Now, when our televisions are 7680x4320 (Super Hi-Vision resolution), 1080p video downloads in iTunes will have just become available to everyone (available in terms of the affordability of broadband speeds fast enough to handle such a download in a reasonable amount of time, in addition to having computers with the storage to hold said videos in iTunes... We'll have seen the demise of the 20" iMac by then, because it would be bad marketing in Apple's eyes to make a screen below 1920x1200 resolution). But, as I said, the availability of 1080p for download on the fly (hard to imagine now) will be made somewhat insignificant by the onset of 7680x4320 movies on disks and such a download would take over 10x the time needed to go to Wal-Mart and buy a 400GB Blu-ray disk with said resolution movie on it.

So, in a roundabout way of saying it, when Super Hi-Vision is the new standard for video resolution, that is when we will see Blu-ray in Macs, because nationwide broadband will NOT be able to catch up in time barring the discovery of a true room temperature superconductor. And not the one they have right now. That thing just barely hits what scientists call "room temperature" (room temperature to them is "above the liquefaction point of nitrogen" so that the material–a ceramic, in this case–can be cooled to the point of superconductivity very cheaply).

Wait... where was I going? Okay, Super Hi-Vision... 400GB Blu-ray disks... a room-temperature superconductor for nationwide broadband infrastructure... oh, yeah.

We'll see Blu-ray in Macs around 2015.  This date is based on the first adoption of Super Hi-Vision as a broadcast format (Japan in 2012 for TV), a cheapening of those 400GB Blu-ray disks (because of mass production), and TV manufacturers' greed toward the American people, because once we ALL have HDTVs, they'll break out the "Oh, 1080p sucks! Here! Look at 4320p!" argument and we'll start to see that resolution of TV come out. Of course, the first 7680x4320 Blu-ray movies will have to have 1920x1080 copies on the disk as well, for backwards compatibility for people without Super Hi-Vision TVs yet.

But... we MIGHT see it earlier. I just think my argument has a decent level of merit. I hope it wasn't too confusing!
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Tallest Skil said:
If you have any evidence for Blu-ray before this, please post it.
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Do you have evidence for Blu-ray after this date, other than your well thought out prediction?

I do hope you're wrong.

I don't mind using an external. I just hope we can get the OS to support the playback.
 
bartelby said:
His own opinion is evidence enough, apparently...
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It's a well thought out opinion, but still, just because Japan will be adopting certain technology at a certain date, doesn't mean the rest of the world will.

I'm hoping within the next year to 18 months the OS will at least support Blu-ray.

That way, we can use externals at least.
 
Kardashian said:
I'm hoping within the next year to 18 months the OS will at least support Blu-ray.
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Snow Leopard doesn't support blu-ray at the moment, so thats not very likely.

Apple will sell HD films through the iTunes store rather than adopting blu-ray players in their Mac's, and before anyone says "oh its ridiculous to expect people to download 50GB blu-ray discs" actually a blu-ray quality high definition movie can be fit on a normal DVD.
 
kastenbrust said:
Snow Leopard doesn't support blu-ray at the moment, so thats not very likely.

Apple will sell HD films through the iTunes store rather than adopting blu-ray players in their Mac's, and before anyone says "oh its ridiculous to expect people to download 50GB blu-ray discs" actually a blu-ray quality high definition movie can be fit on a normal DVD.
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So you are saying a blu ray quailty movie can fit on a dvd...with the HD audio etc?

I downloaded the new Bond movie in "HD" on iTunes and its a joke compared to Blu Rays...it also took a long time to download.

720p max video
audio equivalent to that of a dvd at best.

all for $20, not worth it, but had to try it atleast once.
 
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