LOL, that's like owning a Ferrari and then having it pulled over a gravel road by a bunch of donkeys!
I never installed Windows on my Mac, i tried it with my old desktop.
Trust me, if you had a decent home theater with at least 5.1 surround sound and DTS you would understand...
But you are clearly not the quality endorsing type nor a real movie buff, therefore BluRay would indeed be a total waste on you.
I have a decent 40" LCD with a digital decoder, and i'm already happy with DVD quality.
Steve Job's problem: Once home theater brats get used to BluRay, they are forever lost for iTunes movie quality or SD DVD's. iTS movies are pretty watchable on tiny iPhone, iPad and notebook screens, but hardly bearable on anything bigger than 30".
If you want to hear my real thoughts on Steve Jobs, i don't support nor i take everything he says as a God signal. I don't like for example the fact that Iphone doesn't have Flash, which is something IT SHOULD had been incorporated since the first day of the Iphone.
Steve Jobs KNOWS that - that's why he is trying to knock down BD on every occasion.
Marketing purpose is the only thing that comes to my mind.
Heck, even my Apple evangelical friend and fanboy extraordinaire returned his Apple TV after two days of use. He then purchased a WD TV Live instead and now streams movie content directly from his iMac.
It is sad enough that any halfway decent HDTV rip in MKV format still beats the crap out of that measly iTS-HD stuff Apple offers at BD disc prices!
When even QUALITY FANS willing to pay for content have to tap into illegal sources to get the download quality they really want, then Apple and to an even greater extend the studios are making a terrible mistake!!!
What about Apple's politic regarding warranty?? Here in Italy they only give you 1 yr of warranty for every Apple product you buy, whether for the Italian law every company has to offer 24 months of warranty. I guess these are THE MOST important things that need to be sorted out.
Btw, i never relied on Itunes for my downloads. Some b-sides or rare tracks by some artists like Nine Inch Nails, for example, are not available there.
Honestly, here in Europe iTunes movies at their current standard wouldn't have the slightest market chance even if Apple really tried. BluRay is already way too popular, even among ordinary people!
Not in Italy, though. I don't see many people buying BluRay players or BluRay discs, but i do see more and more people buying HD DVB systems for watching football matches in HD and movie features in HD from SKY HD.
I absolutely couldn't agree with you more. Unfortunately, just to spite Sony and Blu-ray and everyone demanding it, Jobs is more likely to DECREASE THE DELIVERY SIZE OF SOFTWARE, LOWER THE PRICE, and PROVIDE LESS.
Apple is leaving the computer business. It's more than obvious.
Yep. All about forcing crappy downloads on idiots who Apple hopes will never ever see a Blu-ray on a plasma, and is doing everything in their power to try and insure that complete impossibility, to the point of the suicide of their computer line.
One day you'll grow up, spend more time making money than ripping [off?] things, and you'll be able to afford a 65" Plasma and you'll actually see a Blu-ray or two on it.
THEN you'll get it. It's about being able to INTEGRATE all the BEST quality media in your life. Not the worst. The harder you work, the more you earn, the less you steal, and the more you feel you deserve the best life has to offer; not second or even third-best.
I know exactly what you mean. But personally, i don't feel like BluRay is taking my whole life away. I can live without it, and i do understand most of the arguments there are on this board. Some people want it, some people don't. And as i said in my previous post, Apple should REALLY give an option to incorporate BluRay players/recorders as an option for those that ask them....like Dell, Toshiba or any other company that already does this. At a fair price, of course.
The only question is, will they do it BEFORE everyone stops buying their computers and recognizes them for the archaic junk they are, or AFTER everyone else catches on? Here, where we're ahead of the curve aside from Apple shills and ignorant fanbois, the prospect is not looking good.
I don't feel like a fanboy. I personally use Mac mainly for work. They're good computers, and Mac OSX is a solid OS. My opinion regarding the BluRay being "a bag of hurt" was only related to my personal experience...that's it.
But anyway, I guess if Apple continues to follow ONLY his marketing "bible", many people one day won't even go to Macworld Expo's or Keynotes.
