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MacBook with Blu-Ray, Networked HDTV from Apple?

Yeah right, Apple will make a TV. Makes good business sense, does it? :rolleyes:

They should try a decent version of the Apple TV first.

And why exactly is Blu-ray support big news? Any Mac with a USB or Firewire port can already support the drives, it's only software Apple needs to provide.
 
I'm hoping there's no blu-ray. I'd rather have better battery life. If I want to watch blu-ray I'd get an external player.
 
Personally, I wouldn't mind a blu ray player myself but I agree not if it is going to sacrifice battery life. I would rather more effort be put into the 'specs' of the computer
 
Adjei said:
Blu-ray, the most overrated technology ever.
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Overrated how? SD = 480 lines of resolution. HD - 1080 lines of resolution. Company advertises Blu-ray - twice the picture quality, pretty on the ball if you ask me.
 
I think that they will combine Mac Mini & ATV with blu-ray drive, but not until snow leopard is released....
 
econoline06 said:
I'm pretty sure they've already forgotten that :(
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why

you have to look at the future

if you can connect your hole house with apple and the ipod touch or iphone is your controller you can walk from room to room and still continue watching

having your hole house the apple way i ask you one more thing

what do you miss......thats right a mac tablet :)
this would complete apple as i see it

ipods / iphones / tablets / macbooks / macbook pros / mac mini's / imac's/ mac pro's / apple tv / apple tv pro (in all kinds of colors)

what more can they make?

yeah a great controller for logic studio but thats another story :cool:
 
The laptops with Blue-ray means that the iMacs and Mac Pro will receive some blue-ray love too, I would expect.

High time for the Mac Mini and :apple:TV to be "merged". A small, powerful blue-ray capable computer running the full OS X with a "TV mode" or something.
 
champ01 said:
if you can connect your hole house with apple and the ipod touch or iphone is your controller you can walk from room to room and still continue watching
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. . . . . and smack into your wall because you weren't paying attention to where you were going.
 
the tv seems interesting....
if true and apple adds a video camera to the tv and iChat software to it, it will be amazing, videoconf from your leaving room ....
 
aygie said:
Overrated how? SD = 480 lines of resolution. HD - 1080 lines of resolution. Company advertises Blu-ray - twice the picture quality, pretty on the ball if you ask me.
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You forgot the 25GB on a single disc for about $8 (that's how much recordable ones are). That's huge for backup purposes, and it's still way cheaper than any hard drive solution. $32 for a 200GB backup, vs. a hard drive at about $100-130.

Yes, DVDs can do the same, but they take way more discs. If I had a blu-ray burner, I could keep a backup of my entire iTunes music collection on a single optical disc, which isn't as faulty as a hard drive.

But yah, BD is far from overrated. It's not the extreme new world that VHS to DVD was, but it's pretty significant if you have a good TV. If you need to see a good Blu-ray demo, get ahold of Superman Returns and watch the opening credits. It's kinda like using Jurassic Park to test out your surround sound. Ooooohhhh.
 
Joe The Dragon said:
apple TV / apple tv with DVR hold up is likely due to the cable card mess and direct tv is going with tivo. So apple may have a real good dvr but it will not work with SDV cable or SAT so it will have a very small market.
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I don't know much about cable cards and how all that works. Does each company use their own proprietary card that Apple would have to license from them or something like that? What is SDV and SAT? Why couldn't you just plug your cable or satellite cable into the TV and go? Could you expound on your comment for me please? Thanks :)
 
Michael CM1 said:
You forgot the 25GB on a single disc for about $8 (that's how much recordable ones are). That's huge for backup purposes, and it's still way cheaper than any hard drive solution. $32 for a 200GB backup, vs. a hard drive at about $100-130.
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200GB would require 8 discs (25GB) with $8 each. That's $64 in my math (not even considering the one-off costs of $100+ for the Bluray drive). For that money you get 400-500GB of harddisk space, which means 2-2,5x the space for backups.

And writing 200GB to the mentioned 400-500GB harddrive takes massively less time than to burn 8 fully loaded BluRay discs. At least my time _does_ matter to me.

Also - BluRay is still not a long-time-proven medium, unlike harddrives.

So by today i'd take the harddrive backup option anytime over any burnable media with organic material (i.e. destined to deteriorate sooner or later) as data layer. Too bad magneto-optical drives got stuck capacity-wise. Again the superior solution lost due to (slightly) higher costs *sigh*

rgds
Neodym
 
New Macbook Pros... yeee!!

But an Apple LCD-TV??? Naaah... If Apple wants quality and innovation, they should introduce SED-, FED or even CRT. LCD- or Plasma screens are just plain crap. I'm in the professional video-broadcasting business and so far I've seen absolutely no LCD screen that barely approaches CRT video-quality. The Apple Cinema displays look great, but for video there's nothing like a CRT display; which is always native to any resolution/framerate and much richer in colour depth. Just ask any video/film colourist in the business.

Anyway... it would be a surprise to me if Apple actually does introduce a digital TV. I mean, for starters there are so many different (DVB-C/S/T) encryption systems in use by the TV networks worldwide. Current digital-tv boxes don't even support them all because of the licensing fees.
 
it's very easy to get carried away with excitement on someone's "rumor" about an Apple HDTV, but I think to stay realistic we should think:

1. at least for purposes of the event next Tuesday, the focus is quite clearly the laptops, so let's put aside Apple branded large screen TVs for now...

2. Blu-ray support: I think it would make sense to assume that 10.5.6 will have BR support built-in and that in the new line of laptops, the Macbooks won't have BR drives (except possibly via BTO?), but they could be an option for the Pro line, especially given that these machines are most likely to be used for video editing, require larger backup storage methods etc...
 
blu-ray

Hooray for blu-ray-finally! O.k. Apple put blu-ray players in the TV and make the TV able to take a commercial and simply put a "bookmark" to it for getting to on the net-duh The commercial people will pay handsomely for everyone who links onto a site because of this. No more trying to remember the site or gadget or whatever it was or get up to get a pen to write it down and by then it's over. Make millions on it-please give me one of those for the suggestion and bring your stock back up where it belongs!
Make the TV OLED have super blacks and have wireless sound in and out.
Nick Gencarelle
 
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