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Steve Jobs Suggests Blu-ray Not Coming to Mac Anytime Soon

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Carniphage said:
I used to have a universal DVD player. Dumped it now.

I bought my kids Mac Minis - and they have region locked drives.
The easiest solution was to rip the content and put it on a server.

C.
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No, the easiest and most moral, legal, and ethical thing to do would have been to buy your kids universal players. Cheaper too.

Now I can start following all your posts too with "Thief". Pity.

Thank you though for making the point for me that all anti BD folks and Steve Jobs' kneejerk supporters are thieves, and what is motivating them is being able to continue their crimes against content providers and their servicers.

NICE thing to teach your kids, by the way.

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Carniphage said:
I had one!

I had a huge pile of disks. And even spent hours, naming the tracks using the stupid remote.

This is what probably gave me a lifelong allergy to all physical media!

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LOL. That explains a lot.
Sony got you with their shiny commercials, didn't they ;)

I on the other hand was a major laserdisc freak. We often paid $49.95 per title. That's probably why I still consider $15 for a blu-ray disc a bargain.
If you didn't got one of them fancy automatic turners, you had to flip the disc after one hour :rolleyes:
But at least they offered the best picture quality available back then. Audio-wise they were even better. It took nothing less than BD to finally beat the uncompressed audio found on certain DTS LD's.
Still recently a guy was offering me $150 for West Side Story in DTS.
 
Reddkryten said:
On a totally unrelated note, those were minidiscs in The Matrix, cool never noticed that. I didn't even know they could be used for data storage, though I guess it does make sense since CD and audio tape have both been used for storing data.
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Actually they were terrible for data. Slower than and not much more capacity.
But they *looked* like futuristic floppy disks, hence their cameo appearance in both the Matrix and Strange Days.

C.

Glad the manhoods good.
 
NT1440 said:
The majority of people aren't video or audiophiles. Just because something is better doesn't mean something that is already great (like DVD) won't do for the vast majority of people.

If Blu ray is waiting for the vast majority of people to have home theatre set ups, or just hdtvs for that matter, Blu ray is going to be waiting a while.
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On the contrary, big screen prices are dropping sharply, have been for some time, and are flying out of the stores. And into homes that don't have dedicated theater rooms too; regular sized family and even smaller living rooms.

How it is here in the US, anyway.

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xbjllb said:
No, the easiest and most moral, legal, and ethical thing to do would have been to buy your kids universal players. Cheaper too.

Now I can start following all your posts too with "Thief". Pity.
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The only theft that took place was the content creators STEALING MY ****ING MONEY! by engineering stupid immoral thieving protection systems that stop me playing my own ****ING bought and paid for movies.

C.
 
Carniphage said:
The only theft that took place was the content creators STEALING MY ****ING MONEY! by engineering stupid immoral thieving protection systems that stop me playing my own ****ING bought and paid for movies.

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They didn't hold a gun to your head and make you buy it now, did they?

And you had a valid, LEGAL, even CHEAPER workaround.

Yet you broke the law. Willingly. Rebelliously. You naughty man you.

No wonder you love Steve Jobs. Birds of a feather...

I can see your children in school.... "Daddy's a content thief, daddy's a content thief!...

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macdrew said:
I've been to Britain countless times, it's a technological backwater. They even have "caps" on how much data you get each month, what is the deal with that? Are they still living in the dark ages? There is simply no way they have better broadband, it's not even up to the level the US was in 2002. And who uses a "modem" on a Mac... Apple doesn't even sell computers with modems and hasn't for years.

Hard drives are less reliable than optical disks? That's HILARIOUS!

The $800 million is for rural areas, it's not for the whole country. Anyone with a telephone can get broadband, so again the UK is behind. I haven't seen anyone with dialup for at least 7 years, so it sounds like your boss lives in a primitive area.

You were inferring it was a "connection error" with a 404, so I explained if that was the case, your ISP was who to contact. Your error, not mine.

Nonsense, there are no caps in the US, sure there is probably some discounted plan that you can ask to have a cap, but 99% of accounts are unlimited. We have a far more robust infrastructure here don't forget.

What Mac user would still have a modem? You're basically making no sense, so let's end it here.
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A few things, my condescending American cousin:

i) An ADSL modem is still a modem
ii) The only people who think optical disks are less reliable than HDs are the sort of idiots who treat them like coasters. Try treating your HD like a coaster and see how long it lasts. Hard disks are just as unreliable as the vinyl-tape hybrid its mechanics evokes. Vinyl and tape were replaced by optical disk largely because they are read by a laser rather than a needle and they don't get corrupted by magnetic sources.
iii) Perhaps there is something different about US phone lines that I'm not aware of, but in the UK, a small number of people are indeed so far from their telephone exchange that ADSL technology cannot deliver highspeed internet over conventional phone lines. Perhaps this is the very problem that the US government has spent $800 million trying to solve. I highly doubt this is more of a problem in our country than in yours since the US is almost 10 times more sparsely populated than the UK.
iv) I could pick apart your earlier posts for other foolish statements, but it would get tedious. One thing, however, you say you know a lot about Britain, but it would interest you to know that if I spent 50 "quid" a month on unlimited internet, that would be $75, which could not only get me capped ultra-high-speed internet, but satellite TV with enough movie channels and movies on demand to never have to reach for the Apple TV remote (and still have enough left over for a bluray at the end of the month).
 
xbjllb said:
On the contrary, big screen prices are dropping sharply, have been for some time, and are flying out of the stores. And into homes that don't have dedicated theater rooms too; regular sized family and even smaller living rooms.

How it is here in the US, anyway.

:apple:
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Prices dropping doesn't mean people suddenly start throwing out their 5 year old TVs that are still doing their job. Yes when looking for a new TV HDTVs are flying off the shelf, but not nearly everyone is looking to dump their working TVs just so they can run out and buy a new one.

I live in the US.
 
NT1440 said:
Prices dropping doesn't mean people suddenly start throwing out their 5 year old TVs that are still doing their job. Yes when looking for a new TV HDTVs are flying off the shelf, but not nearly everyone is looking to dump their working TVs just so they can run out and buy a new one.

I live in the US.
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Market penetration has been awfully good considering there's a Depression on and its getting worse.

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yg17 said:
So Apple's product, out of the box, is crap, and it requires hacking by other people do make it good. Don't give Apple credit for making such a wonderful product, if they had their way, it would be locked down and only play their own formats.
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What? The AppleTV out of the box is incredible, but with all computers you soon add something called "software" to give it more functions. The AppleTV is no different, so it sounds like you are new to computing.

Ah, Apple is all open, so they don't have any video or audio formats of their own, they are an opensource based company. Apple never locks anything down, that's why they are so popular.
 
xbjllb said:
Market penetration has been awfully good considering there's a Depression on and its getting worse.
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No, we would never go into a depression, we ended the "recession" last july don't forget and now the economy is growing at an impressive 3-4%.
 
Carniphage said:
Look up the word "theft" in a dictionary. Read it. And then read it again. Carefully!
What does it say?

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Rationalize all you want, my friend. You're a thief and will always be a thief as long as you continue to do so and continue to try and rationalize and justify your prior theft.

You had two legal AND ethical choices, (and one was actually CHEAPER)

1. Buy a copy of each work you wished to view, or

2. Buy a legal universal player.

You chose to do otherwise, and violate copyright laws.

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macdrew said:
What? The AppleTV out of the box is incredible, but with all computers you soon add something called "software" to give it more functions. The AppleTV is no different, so it sounds like you are new to computing.

Ah, Apple is all open, so they don't have any video or audio formats of their own, they are an opensource based company. Apple never locks anything down, that's why they are so popular.
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Thief.

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Steve Jobs said:
There are no plans to make a tablet.
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Steve Jobs said:
We didn’t think we’d do well in the cellphone business.
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Steve Jobs said:
The fact is that people don’t read anymore.
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Steve Jobs said:
I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a tiny little screen.
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Bonus points to anyone who can find the quote where he dissed USB Flash-based MP3 players without displays, months before Apple released the iPod Shuffle.
 
macdrew said:
No, we would never go into a depression, we ended the "recession" last july don't forget and now the economy is growing at an impressive 3-4%.
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Thief. DRUNK on lethal Kool-aid THIEF.

Better get yourself to a poison control center immediately.

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And sorry, but Carniphage isn't a thief for ripping movies he legally bought and putting them on his home media server. To call that theft is ridiculous. And I've ripped my own Blu-rays to play them on my iPad during a flight I'll be taking in a couple weeks. I'm not a thief either.
 
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