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Notebook Refresh to Be Highlight of WWDC, Non-Retina MacBook Pro to Continue?
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I did a little research and on the new titles BluRay now accounts for around 45% of sales versus 55% for DVD. I would guess that is entirely down to the price differential that still exists. Once that's gone DVD will be history.
It's very misleading to state that BluRay has been out for seven years without mentioning the HD battle that took place between HDD and BluRay for at least 2 of those years. It's only when one standard won out did the studios feel confident enough to fully back BluRay. It then takes time to get BluRay players into people's homes and to gradually bring the price of the disks down.
I stopped reading after you stopped reading what they stopped reading.
Legally, people are required to pay income tax on interest earned. Do all people do so? No, they move it to foreign countries to avoid this.
The US has been clamping down on that in particular with Swiss banks. And in Europe, the EU is moving fast into requiring banks in all EU countries (and close neighbours like Switzerland) to ensure that banks inform the tax authorities of any interest earned by any EU citizen/resident.
It is interesting that not paying sales tax is widely accepted behaviour but not paying income tax on interest is getting increasingly frowned upon.
Or they could simply re engineer the retina and make it user upgradeable as it should have been from the beginning.
Problem solved, and then there wouldn't be a need for the classic
Why? That would mean they'd be rushing it to get it ready for WWDC.
This is good news. It means Sir Ives isn't falling into into Forstall's pattern of rushing software for arbitrary show/release dates.
I don't buy the battery excuse for not releasing a rMBA this year either. I think there's a rMBA prototype being tested in the Apple labs right now. If Apple doesn't release a rMBA this year, I think it will be more likely that Apple didn't believe the market would accept the significant price increase for it and they need to bring production costs down first.
As for the optical drive on the what I like to call, the legacy models, I think they'll be gone in the next year or two. External optical drives will be the option for those who still use them.
That;s a very misleading data.
Which titles were you looking at that show 45/55?
Plus, and let's not forget, the Blu-ray SKU almost always includes a Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and/or UV Code and possibly a 3D Disc for about $5 more. The DVD is just the DVD.
The "battle" was a year and half. Keep in mind DVD didn't have full studio support until 2000, since some studios supported Divx (like Paramount and Disney). So the format war means nothing when full studio support came faster for Blu-ray than DVD.
I'm sure streaming will have it's place just like iTunes downloads have their place in the market but if I come back to my original point if you don't have a super fast broadband network you're never going to have a streaming marketplace, which is why optical disks will always have a place. Ok maybe not in the US - presumably you've all got 100Mb connections over there.
In the UK 1 in 9 households don't have a fixed line phone or broadband connection. In most emerging markets that figure is considerably higher. That's the future. When you can stream HD movies from Netflix using mobile broadband anywhere in the world then I will believe it's the future.
I think we are just looking at things from a different perspective. Naturally you are looking at what is happening in the US whereas I tend to look at what is happening in the rest of the world.
Maybe I missed something on this topic, but what is the current delivery medium for 4K video? Pushing it via cable like standard (HD)TV probably is the easiest. But are there any disk formats that can hold 4K content?
I don't understand why people don't think IOS 7 and OS 10.9 won't be the highlights of WWDC2013. This analyst said he thought the "product highlight" would be the Haswell MBP. The Product. Meaning hardware. WWDC is and has always been about developers and new API's for upcoming software and OS's.
Nothing has changed. Phil Schiller said he can't wait to get IOS 7 and OS 10.9 into the hands of developers.
What the guy means is he doesn't think Apple will introduce a Mac Pro or an iWatch or the fabled Apple Television.
Nothing has changed. Phil Schiller said he can't wait to get IOS 7 and OS 10.9 into the hands of developers.
What the guy means is he doesn't think Apple will introduce a Mac Pro or an iWatch or the fabled Apple Television.
SACD came to market way too late... if it was there in 1992 it might have had a chance.
One thing that Digital media is the speed it takes to get into a movie. Disney are the main worst for this... 5 IN CINEMAS NOW Trailers, COMING SOON, Etc all hopelessly outdated when you play it 4 years later and you can't skip anything!! I freaking bought this Blu ray. Play the film already. I've found a lot of older people don't care about HD at all and claim to not even see the difference.
I am all for the digital future. I'd spend a £40 a month for a subscription to watch and listen to anything.
Are you suggesting that BluRay is going to die and everyone will go back to DVD? Yes or No?
They should eliminate the keyboard on the macbook air while making the screen around 10" and touch compatible. =)
It's an opinion. I think Apple would rather spend time and money on the rMBP than on the cMBP. It's clearly where they want to go. I think they thought that the rMBP would sell better than it has so they could discontinue the cMBP, use those resources toward continued development of the rMBP, and simplify the line. Again, this is my opinion and by no means fact.
LOL! Why is that a racist comment? Perhaps incorrect but certainly nothing to do with ethnicity.
You media brain-washed folks crack me up. Always reading between lines that aren't there and jumping to conclusions.
Huh? Where the hell did you even get that from?
Consumers are moving onto streaming and downloading. The day of "owning" titles is ending.
The disks are going to be called BluRay Ultra HD. That's going to be the official name in the shops. 4K relates to the player.
Not surprising that Sony are pushing things as they invented BluRay. The PlayStation 4 will support 4k movies so expect a big push once that comes out later this year.