And yet Amazon still sells the Nexus 7...I think it has to do with the fact that Apple sells media through a competitive format.
I agree with you though. Apple just kept holding out because they can lay down the law.
And yet Amazon still sells the Nexus 7...I think it has to do with the fact that Apple sells media through a competitive format.
If Apple are never going to include a Blu-Ray drive then they need to offer Movies and TV Shows from iTunes at Blu-Ray bitrate with the HD audio tracks in place and include HD Audio support in the Apple TV etc.
I rip my Blu-Rays to uncompressed MVK's with the HD Audio tracks and stream them using Windows MCE. Until Apple offer full bitrate downloads with HD Audio I won't go near an Apple TV.
You're right, Phil- we're not asking for it anymore; we've given up hope. Self-fulfilling prophecy much?
As for me, I'll stop being interested in BluRay as soon as there's something better. There isn't yet- certainly not iTunes.
Still hilarious that my 900 dollar laptop that I bought in 2009 had a blu ray drive. But the 1800 dollar one I bought last year doesn't.
Agreed 100%. Is it too much to ask for an external Blu-Ray drive from Apple?
I have an Apple TV for to rent movies, but anything purchased is in BluRay. BluRay image quality is vastly superior to Apple TV streaming.
Apple has lost its way. I'm surprised it's not even an opinion on the mac pro, as lots of people who use their mac for actual work (rather than, I don't know, playing angry birds on a 27" screen) would benefit from being able to make backups of their data using blue ray.
I for one need to burn dvds with data (e.g. physical backup of photos). Not often, but on occasion.
I don't think I am significantly away from any average consumer.
As for Blue Ray I can't say (I don't even watch dvds at all, so in that respect I am in the tail of the gaussian.)
And if "you can have it external" then it does misses the point of the sleekness factor.
This.
And I find the prospect humorous that the same people that laud the retina displays would scoff at demanding a higher visual quality from their movies and content.
I can sort of see getting rid of optical drives in notebooks, but for desktop machines it just seems silly. Users lose a great backup option, and they can't simply pop in a DVD or CD anymore, when the part probably only costs Apple less than $5.
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Most never care about audio. It's sad. My kids couldn't believe the difference when I first popped in Avengers this month. And they had seen it in nice, new theaters. And I try to pick the best seats at a theater for both audio and video, but it just isn't the same as a serious, calibrated system at home. At least, not with a sub like mine.And I guess all of you don't have a decent AVR, let alone a decent speaker system. If you ever heard a Blu-Ray DTS HD Master over a decent home theater (which btw is specced up to 10MBit/s stream for audio) you wouldn't talk this stuff out of your backs.