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Nehalem Mac Pros a world of hurt.

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Chaos123x

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So with all the exciment of the high prices low clock speeds, and small RAM limits we forgot about..........


BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:


I mean WTF? It's not even a CTO option? :mad:



What year is it again?
 
Chaos123x said:
So with all the exciment of the high prices low clock speeds, and small RAM limits we forgot about..........


BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:


I mean WTF? It's not even a CTO option? :mad:



What year is it again?
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it's the year when optical media finally gets buried where it belongs.
 
Chaos123x said:
So with all the exciment of the high prices low clock speeds, and small RAM limits we forgot about..........


BLU-RAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:


I mean WTF? It's not even a CTO option? :mad:



What year is it again?
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Dear People who think that Blu-ray has a place in the future,

Why?

Signed,

Apple.

Also, who cares? Buy a drive on your own for CHEAPER than APPLE would EVER offer one and install it yourself.
 
The real issue is that this is a sign that DVD Studio Pro won't have Blu-Ray either.

How are you supposed to give a client a HD video to play on there HDTV?

A computer file? Please, they would never ever figure out how to open quicktime to play it.
 
Superdrives should include BR tech regardless of anyones opinion. For that money it should be standard in apples "Super drives" if they are truly super.
 
Blu-ray is an awful storage media and really an external drive isn't that big of a deal if you're doing actual authoring. Plus, if your client has a Mac, they can view a DVDSP HD-DVD.
 
Like it or not, Blu-Ray IS the future of HD video distribution.

The internet will not catch up since ISPs are doing everything possible to limit bandwidth, limit download amounts, minimize operating costs and expand/upgrade as little as possible.

Holographic discs are more than a year away from public production and several years from video distribution.
 
Bought one, and installed it myself.

I may be wrong, but toast offers a BD plugin that makes it work ?
 
dagomike said:
Buy a USB thumb drive for like $25. This is an HD project after all, and hopefully you're not just giving it away.
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Oh that would nice, I would have to spend a hour on the phone with them everytime they want to play the video.

Great idea. :(
 
I'm trying not to give up on Apple's support Blu-Ray. Sure, this wave of Mac Pro's didn't have it, but I won't lose faith unless Snow Leopard and FCS3 don't include it either.

Who knows, if either Snow Leopard or FCS3 introduce Blu-Ray support, then they can add CTO options for Blu-Ray drives for the Mac Pro, no?
 
Chaos123x said:
So nobody cares about Blu-Ray? Not even pros? :eek:
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Pros who need/want BR are already leaving Apple behind. Maybe when Apple pulls it's head out of its butt, does some long over due upgrades to the ProApps, and stops trying to protect the iTMS by boycotting BR people will start coming back.


Lethal
 
LethalWolfe said:
Pros who need/want BR are already leaving Apple behind. Maybe when Apple pulls it's head out of its butt, does some long over due upgrades to the ProApps, and stops trying to protect the iTMS by boycotting BR people will start coming back.


Lethal
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True, but if these Nehalem updates are any type of sign, we will be using DVD Studio Pro 4 again with FCS 3.

Hopefully Adobe will make Encore much better in the future.
 
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