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Phil Schiller Claims Customers Aren't Asking for Built-In Blu-Ray Anymore
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I have Planet Earth and am sure there are many more after that. And often I pop in those DVD's to the PS3 and immerse in the sheer beauty of the visual.
And yet, I can read and write to blank BD-R discs. Apple doesn't support playing Blu-Ray *movies*. That's true. But even then you can get software for your Mac that *will*.
The fact that Apple would need a license in order for a 3rd party to be able to provide licensed software should clue you in on why Apple hasn't picked up that particular torch.
I've yet to hear anyone ask for a thinner or lighter iMac either...
I have heard people asking for cooler and quieter iMacs and for iMacs with desktop CPUs & GPUs.
The iMacs have always had desktop CPUs.
The Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge generation ones certainly. Maybe check the specs before asking for something it already has.
I imagine you're not very bright, but I'll tell you that I'm not backing up angry bird saves
I used to own hundreds of VHS tapes. Then DVD came along. Sold all my VHS on eBay, and collected nearly 1000 DVDs. Then Blu-Ray came out. So, I sold all my DVDs started buying Blu-Rays, and then I realized that I am an idiot
I now own 0 DVDs and 2 Blu-Rays. Last time I used my Blu-Ray player was 2 years ago. Physical medias are dead to me as well. Online streaming is clearly the future and it doesn't take up a ridiculous amount of space for large collections
I understand trading in the VHSes for DVDs but I never understood the selling the old DVDs and buying all blu-rays. Just keep the old dvds which play fine on bluray players, and get all the new stuff you want on bluray. That's if you want physical media, which I understand some people now hate.
If you don't mind excessive pixelation, banding and macroblocking, then blu-ray is not needed to get the best PQ currently available.
You just need to lower your standards, which seems to be an oxymoran if you like Apple products.
I basically said that there´s no need to "upgrade" a Bluray as it´s already superior in quality to everything on the iTunes Store. You can upgrade all you want, but with Bluray, I dont need to.
Not to worry. I just saw the rMBP 13 commercial and it said that computer is for the professional in all of us. Problem solved for professionals, possibly solved better if you will all buy an iPhone and then also buy movies to watch on it from the iTunes store. You might not get the best sound or image quality, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are using Phil's preferred solution. What could be better (for Phil)?
Same for the rest of you whiners taking exception to second rate sound and image quality. Please purchase something from the iTines store for the convenience of it and watch or listen to it on an iToy instead of poking at the bubble of Phil's alternate reality with your complaints.
First of all, I think a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray drive in a computer costs a lot more than $5.
Secondly, an optical drive is a BIG component inside a computer. When designing the machine, you set aside a huge amount of space so 12 cm disk can spin around at a thousand miles per hour just in case somebody pops one in. And if they don't put one it? Well, I guess all that space just goes to waste.
Think of an optical drive as an input for a computer the same way USB, Ethernet, and Thunderbolt are. The difference is, an optical drive takes up EXPONENTIALLY more space inside a computer than those other ports, and in the days of 8 and 16 GB USB thumbdrives, one has to question the value of having an optical drive.
No offense intended, but if you don't watch movies, how does this thread matter to you at all?
I really like blu ray movies too..It's like watching a live play....
But your answer as to why "we" want blu ray on our computers is off....First of all, speak for yourself regarding piracy, you don't know why other folks want blu ray and I'm wiling to bet most don't want to pirate them...
I want it so I can put my personal HD movies of my family on them.
The next iPad Pro will solve it with a Fusion Drive unit running an OSX installation.
The Pro ad could say: "Buy a Pro tablet with 1TB Fusion drive, 10x more processing power, the same battery life. From $1299,00".
I love reading the people arguing so strongly against Blu-ray. For some of them it's as if to be part of some new groovy, awesome, twenty-second century paradigm means you have to badmouth the "old" so you can prove you at one with "the new".
Blu-ray isn't really any different than spicy food or French colonial furniture. If you don't like it, don't buy it but don't denigrate those who do like it.
Blu-ray isn't really any different than spicy food or French colonial furniture. If you don't like it, don't buy it but don't denigrate those who do like it.
Which is why it's a crappy technology. And the truth is, you can't have any security that works in a fixed medium. 50 million players have to be out there. All the same. It took little more than a month to reverse engineer it.
Buying a file and putting it on your computer would make an invisible and reasonable system for copy control. A file could notice that you had already played this movie the maximum number of times, and ask you for a buck to play it again or another $5 to buy it outright. Once a fixed medium is cracked, it's cracked. It just gets easier. A file you store on your computer, or on a drive in your network, can be set up to like a program. Not impossible to beat, but most people will go along with it because it's reasonable. Doesn't call the police, doesn't ask for a fortune, and doesn't leave you stranded on a plane without anything to watch.
People often complain that Apple is a walled garden and my response usually was... So what? if the experience to the end user is seamless and smooth and has quality then why does it matter if Apple is a Walled garden or not?
But in this case, sorry Apple. Not all of us are blind Apple cultists and go ga-ga over everything you do. Some of us can see things for what it is. You just want to rake in money through iTunes and shut the consumer out of his choices. Most importantly, high quality choices.
And thus the iTunes app loses its coveted position on my dock.. Poof.... to never be seen again.
But in this case, sorry Apple. Not all of us are blind Apple cultists and go ga-ga over everything you do. Some of us can see things for what it is. You just want to rake in money through iTunes and shut the consumer out of his choices. Most importantly, high quality choices.
And thus the iTunes app loses its coveted position on my dock.. Poof.... to never be seen again.
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That's fine for most movies, especially if you don't care about them enough to wait for when, if ever, they show up on Netflix for streaming.
For movie buffs though having the actual blu-ray disc in your collection is important for certain movies. That being said, I could really care less if I'm able to watch it on my Mac right off the disc. I have an external drive to rip if I want to, and it cost me about 1/3 of what it would have it apple integrated one.
Yes, because they want to push their damn DRM'ed to hell and back iTunes content with ****** bitrates and poor quality compared to Blu-ray.
I'm not against Blu-Ray. I'm only against including it by default in my computer. I've considered getting an external Blu-Ray drive for my MBP, and a portion of my video library is on Blu-Ray (Mostly the Pixar and Miyazaki films).
Apple cannot monetize BluRay. Therefore they will not include it. Took em long enough to have HDMI.
I recently got Prometheus and it has a digital copy that I have on my iPhone, Xbox and Nexys 7. I guess if Apple had equivalent to HDX on VUDU I'd be fine. Note that I have 3 blu ray players.
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Tell it to the 7 inch haters
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Tell it to the 7 inch haters