agree with you there.
hopefully IF there is blu-ray support, that it is only in the top of the line MBP and not all of them cause i definitely do not need it.
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agree with you there.
hopefully IF there is blu-ray support, that it is only in the top of the line MBP and not all of them cause i definitely do not need it.
Patents
I like to point out to a few patents for food for thought and discussion.
http://www.last100.com/2008/02/07/through-patent-filing-apple-hints-at-rich-future-of-appletv/
http://www.last100.com/2008/03/13/a...ed-for-apple-this-one-might-be-game-changing/
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...lcd_display_that_also_takes_photos_video.html
I like to point out to a few patents for food for thought and discussion.
http://www.last100.com/2008/02/07/through-patent-filing-apple-hints-at-rich-future-of-appletv/
http://www.last100.com/2008/03/13/a...ed-for-apple-this-one-might-be-game-changing/
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...lcd_display_that_also_takes_photos_video.html
Too many MS/HD-DVD fanboys on this forum moaning about BluRay being included in upcoming Macs.
-If BluRay is going to be in the new Macbooks, it obviously won't be in every model.
-Nothing stopping Apple from having BluRay as a BTO option for the iMacs on Tuesday.
-I doubt we will see burners yet because Final Cut and iLife don't support them (so no real reason to see them in the Mac Pros yet).
-Having a BluRay drive in a laptop means I can watch the same movie on my MacBook Pro as well as on my HD TV. So I won't have to buy multiple versions of the same movie or mess around with decrypting them.
-If BluRay is going to be in the new Macbooks, it obviously won't be in every model.
-Nothing stopping Apple from having BluRay as a BTO option for the iMacs on Tuesday.
-I doubt we will see burners yet because Final Cut and iLife don't support them (so no real reason to see them in the Mac Pros yet).
-Having a BluRay drive in a laptop means I can watch the same movie on my MacBook Pro as well as on my HD TV. So I won't have to buy multiple versions of the same movie or mess around with decrypting them.
personally I need Blu-ray to make back up of my he footage on location. That's why a blu-ray writer would be perfect
No, the main benefit of BluRay burning is HD Video.
Atm, you can easily acquire HDV through firewire - but it's an acquisition format only, it's not good to natively edit in HDV, and I've heard criticisms of outputting back to HDV tape. So what are you gonna do for your master copy? It's so easy to go HDV in, and then have a digital copy ...but what are you gonna do with that? Compress the hell out of it, and put it on the web? If so, what was the point of filming in HD in the first place?
A BluRay writer actually means you can have a HighDef product at the end of your workflow.
So finally, you can film in HD, and master to HD.
But this is Pro level, not consumer level.
I assume therefore, anyone really into this, will get a Mac Pro desktop and buy a burner, but it would be lovely to have some portable options.
I like to point out to a few patents for food for thought and discussion.
http://www.last100.com/2008/02/07/through-patent-filing-apple-hints-at-rich-future-of-appletv/
http://www.last100.com/2008/03/13/a...ed-for-apple-this-one-might-be-game-changing/
http://www.appleinsider.com/article...lcd_display_that_also_takes_photos_video.html
good spot!
i remember reading about these few months ago.
Apple built a manufacturing plant and no one knows where it is?
go to youtube, search "alien october 14".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4G4mFvM0OY
Heres a better idea: Apple cuts the proprietary ******** and just gives iTunes normal UPNP support so we can stream stuff to our game consoles or other device of our choosing like Windows does.
What about old AppleTV owners?
Hopefully they include a free firmware update with all these features. I'd hate for my AppleTV to be treated like a bastard child, a la Touch.
Hopefully they include a free firmware update with all these features. I'd hate for my AppleTV to be treated like a bastard child, a la Touch.
The only reason I'd want a Blu-Ray drive is for watching the occasional HD movie rental from Netflix. The world is moving towards digital downloads; but between Comcast trying to limit peoples' ability to use non-Comcast video providers (via the new monthly download quota) and the movie industry still doing everything it can to slow the adoption of internet movie downloads, it may very well be 5-10 years before the legal dust has settled and we're able to grab any movie we want (legally) online.
For most movies I don't really care about high-def; but the ones that are crap except for visual appeal (e.g. Transformers) might as well be watched in HD. It's unlikely I'll ever buy a Blu-Ray disk though - I hardly ever buy DVDs anymore, since there just aren't many movies I want to see more than once.
I use big hard drives for backup, so I couldn't care less about Blu-Ray in my laptop or any non-media-centric computer.
For most movies I don't really care about high-def; but the ones that are crap except for visual appeal (e.g. Transformers) might as well be watched in HD. It's unlikely I'll ever buy a Blu-Ray disk though - I hardly ever buy DVDs anymore, since there just aren't many movies I want to see more than once.
I use big hard drives for backup, so I couldn't care less about Blu-Ray in my laptop or any non-media-centric computer.
Why would it be expensive if it's for playback only?
But Apple have updated their consumer computers a couple of months before their pro computers before. With Christmas approaching, Apple needs a new reason for people to buy consumer MacBooks of course because it is their biggest selling computer.
Blu-ray is not dying off. In the first nine months of 2008, people have bought 8.8 million Blu-ray discs compared to 5.6 million for the entire 2007. Growth may not be as quick as it could be for a number of reasons, some of which Sony is responsible for and can fix themselves, such as the price, but it most certainly is not dying.
Blu-ray is still competing with DVD, digital downloads, DVR's, digital copy discs, and many people still don't own HD TV's, but they will. Blu-ray will continue to grow, but with the modern competition that it has, it won't be as quick as DVD was. That said, Blu-ray player sales have tripled this year, and that doesn't count the Sony PS3 sales which have also jumped, and Blu-ray player sales are expected to jump eightfold by 2012.
HD DVD Fanboys? The format is dead....
The format is dead, but sales continue to rise with the cheap players and cheap media available on the market today. Get it while you can.
I love Blu-Ray, I love HD-DVD. I can tell the difference between HD and SD on ANY screen size, so yes, please put it in the notebooks.
Just because some people are whining that they don't need it doesn't mean it's a bad thing to have. It will be an upgrade option, so stop whining. People bitch about Apple being behind in laptop specs and then when they hear about them putting a cutting edge technology in the notebooks they bitch some more.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Try around $380.00 US at NewEgg and a 6x burner no less!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136150
Why don't people believe Apple would make a television? Other computer companies make multimedia TVs. They went from computers to music to phones... why not TV's? I'm just curious.
