Perhaps I bought the wrong PC brands. I have owned Dell, HP, Compaq, and VAIO. Maybe I should have built my own. Anyways its too late, Macs work great for me now. If I need to burn to BD from my Mac there is OWC.
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Steve Jobs Suggests Blu-ray Not Coming to Mac Anytime Soon
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Perhaps I bought the wrong PC brands. I have owned Dell, HP, Compaq, and VAIO. Maybe I should have built my own. Anyways its too late, Macs work great for me now. If I need to burn to BD from my Mac there is OWC.
so you backup your off topic claim by attempting to go back on topic?
face it, you are wrong. a custom built PC will pwn any mac - for half the price.
in any case, i somewhat agree. streaming goes ok - but physical media is still massive (and will remain so).
I can't say for sure as I am not familiar with the fastest customized Mac pros but I have seen some very fast custom PC's. Take this custom PC for example. It is lightning fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26enkCzkJHQ
That is more power than I will ever need. But then again I am not a video or photo professional. My C2D's are fast enough for my LAMP development.
No, you chaps misunderstood that... so i'll clarify: Is it worth the trouble for Apple to build BD versions of their products just to please a few whiners? Should they retool their manufacturing and design departments just to cater to you?? Apparently not.
Oh right... because the ambient lighting and noise on a jet (aeroplane?) are just perfect for viewing ultra-super-mega-maxi high quality media. Good point.
Who told whom that they were "wrong to want BD"? Can you quote the actual post... or are you just fabricating bovine flatulence?
What's "non-existent" are the points of view you've invented to post against.
[else, quote the person directly... instead of chatting it up with Aiden as an aside, in typical troll fashion.] Looks to me like you're overreacting to hallucinations or something. True... unless of course one's perception of what's actually happening is mistaken. In which case, "cognitive dissonance" merely becomes a pseudo-intellectual term which doesn't (properly) apply to the current situation.
That post is okay i guess. Still suffers slightly from the "anybody who doesn't care about Blu-ray is wrong, and therefore deserves my wrath" mentality.
In the end though, nothing's really getting accomplished here. Facts are one thing and opinions are another. Most people don't need their Mac to support BD... that's a fact, Jack. And calling them names will only result in more posts from me.
By "you", you mean a large group of people right? DVD is old tech. Pro Apple software ships on multiple discs, which is pretty amateur for Apple.
Blu-Ray is better than DVD. We should get it for the same reasons we got FW800 and USB2. It's just the next evolutionary step. And no, optical drives are not even close to dead yet - at least not for iMac/Mac Pro desktop computers.
Funny thing though... I don't remember Apple having the same "trouble" when my mum got her G3 PowerBook Pismo with a shiny new DVD-ROM drive over 10 years ago.
Like I said though, I'm happy to wait until DVD drives become so obsolete as to be more expensive than BD drives. Kind of like putting 20GB HDDs in Xboxes was a couple of years ago. My next desktop Mac will definitely have Blu-Ray.
Blu Ray is a scam the movie industry has to sucker people into buying movies they bought on DVD & VHS. OTH I use Blu Ray for backups it's good for that but that's about it.
DVD was a scam to make people buy what they already had on VHS.
VHS was a scam to make people buy what they already had as books.
Books were a scam to make people buy stories they heard through hearsay.
I could go on with digital downloads->CD->cassette->vinyl, etc. Clearly every step in technology is a scam. Especially as you're forced to buy things twice.
Are you Dwight Schrute?
Yes, that is what mac users (including me) end up doing. Too bad you were suggesting people get BD players for the mac.
Any fool can plop a blu-ray disc into a BD player. On the mac, it requires more work than that. And that is too bad, because everything else on Mac OS is so wonderfully simple.
I'm beginning to wonder if any of your senses function properly. You can't see your laptop screen on a plane, and you can't hear anything on a plane. A couple of things to check to make sure you're OK:
Is your macbook screen bad?
Is your eyesight going?
Do you have bad headphones, or need noise canceling headphones?
Or is your hearing bad, too?
Seriously, don't worry about Blu-ray, don't worry about SD. I suspect you and Helen Keller have a couple of things in common.
Make any Blu-Ray interactive menus lately?
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Seriously, none of this is anywhere near as important as you're trying (a little too hard it would appear) to make it out to be. Apple needs to add BD, or folks can't watch movies in the skies??? LMAO.
Are you Dwight Schrute?
False again.
I wonder if Steve Jobs watches movies on his laptop or in a home theater?
I was pointing out that BD players are indeed an option for those that claim BD is not an option on the Mac. Its called OWC (www.macsales.com).
I wish. No... i misread your question; thought you were talking about the drive.
Anyway, as your question:
It's a silly question, so my silly answer will more than suffice.
Check out www.macsales.com (OWC). They do some pretty amazing things. I will be sending them my 2009 iMac to have a SSD put in.
I didn't realize we were playing for points.
More writing on the wall that streaming will surpass BD. And the article is from yesterday.
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com...ong-lament-from-a-struggling-institution.html
For rentals, yes.
It's not the same choice if you want to own it.
Downloads for convenience, Blu-ray for quality.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/12/...-7-ad-touts-blu-ray-shows-macs/#disqus_thread
Ouch.. Funny how the video on engadget is flash only. Had to use skyfire to watch it. Lol
Ouch.. Funny how the video on engadget is flash only. Had to use skyfire to watch it. Lol
Only it's not "Flash only":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YbmK3Zu0Os&html5=True
Engadget is just a pig of a website... that's all.
Hal I'm not gonna argue with you, but my posts state 'on endgagdet' not YouTube. On my iphone4 that was my only option that the site gave me. So I used skyfire. That is all.
Yes the hardware exists, too bad you can't plug it in and have it just work. You need non-Apple software to do that. THat's not an option, that's a hack. A matte screen on MacBook Pros is an option. A Radeon 5870 on a MacPro is an option.
Hmm, I think you're confused again and/or arguing with yourself. I believe you were the one crying about how you can't see or hear anything on a plane, and blu-ray wouldn't fix that. I was merely trying to get you to see a doctor for a checkup.
Why, oh why would you ever want less choice? Because you are insane!
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I was right there with you, until I got an HDTV and hooked up my PS3 with an HDMI cable. Obviously, the DVD and Blu-Ray looked identical on my old TV, but I was amazed at the Blu-Ray improvement on my new TV. To me, it's worth the extra $0.50 at Redbox or the extra couple of dollars if I want to buy a movie (a lot of publishers are now giving you a free digital copy and DVD when you buy the Blu-Ray pack).
Hmm, I think you're confused again and/or arguing with yourself. I believe you were the one crying about how you can't see or hear anything on a plane, and blu-ray wouldn't fix that. I was merely trying to get you to see a doctor for a checkup.
Why, oh why would you ever want less choice? Because you are insane!
I love that you're still beating on that old strawman so hard it's killing you. You obviously need to brush up on your reading comprehension. His point wasn't that he couldn't see anything on a plane, but that the suboptimal conditions, particularly the lighting and ambient noise, reduces the relative benefits of Bluray so as to be negligible, and thus there is no advantage to a Bluray movie, at least in terms of quality, when trying to watch the video on a plane.
Take what inferences you want from that, and please, no one try to argue with me using any other information because I'm not getting into this discussion as a whole, but that one piece of information apparently needed clarification because otherwise you were just going to beat that strawman into the ground and ignore the actual point completely.
jW
Microsoft ad jabs Apple; shows Mac envious of Windows 7s Blu-ray
Read the comments in link below. I guess I am not alone in thinking that streaming will replace BD. The article is dated today 11/12/10. I can't get any more recent than that unless you give me a time machine.
Microsoft ad jabs Apple; shows Mac envious of Windows 7s Blu-ray
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.p...pple_shows_mac_envious_of_windows_7s_blu-ray/
"If you are really worried about a Blu Ray player I have some other already-dead technologies to sell you. Plastic boxes are yesterday, kids."
"Wait, what? People still use physical media rather than streaming their movies? How quaint!"
"Look at the new Mac Book Air, no CD drive.... Microsoft it's called streaming. Duh!"
Read the comments in link below. I guess I am not alone in thinking that streaming will replace BD. The article is dated today 11/12/10. I can't get any more recent than that unless you give me a time machine.
Microsoft ad jabs Apple; shows Mac envious of Windows 7s Blu-ray
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.p...pple_shows_mac_envious_of_windows_7s_blu-ray/
"If you are really worried about a Blu Ray player I have some other already-dead technologies to sell you. Plastic boxes are yesterday, kids."
"Wait, what? People still use physical media rather than streaming their movies? How quaint!"
"Look at the new Mac Book Air, no CD drive.... Microsoft it's called streaming. Duh!"
Perhaps because too much choice can actually hinder rather than help the consumer. You should give Barry Schwartz's "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" a read some day. Very insightful.
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