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USB 3.0 and Blu-Ray
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waywardsage
macrumors 6502
Torrents are popular because people are cheep/free. But that is not a decent argument about physical media! Torrenting is stealing plain and simple. And its against the law.
Like i've been saying for a while now. Downloads will not take over the Blu ray market anytime soon. High speed internet that can download a 1080P film at a reasonable speed is years away. Last i checked, ISP speeds haven't been growing exponentially like our computer chip speeds.
Look for downloads to perhaps take over the rental market. People still love owning a physical copy of something. Especially when hard drives burn up and people loose all their files.
belvdr
macrumors 603
Torrenting is not illegal. The sharing and downloading of copyright protected content is.
Saying torrenting is illegal is analogous to saying DVD-R's are illegal, since people burn pirated content to them. The method of distribution is not illegal; the content may be.
Don't forget about light peak technology depending on what Intel wants to do it could take over USB 3.0 which IMO would be nice as long as it comes out next year.
the only folks saying that Blu Ray is a bag of hurt is the stork wearing the black turtleneck. Blu Ray has been adopted by all hardware manufacturers except apple.
zw-gator
macrumors 6502a
Yea and Dell charges you $600 (Canadian) for BR drive on their laptops. Do you really want BR that badly? I sure don't.
You people think Apple will just slap it on for free? They'll charge $700 for it and everyone will go ape-****, just watch.
For that price you could almost buy a BR player and HD TV!!!!
zw-gator
macrumors 6502a
Technical evolution? Optical media is dead/dying. Flash storage (SD) is where the future lies.
Choice? Buy a HD TV and BR player, or buy a PC if you want it so bad. But please stop complaining because you can't watch BR on your 13' laptop screen.
Heck, even the 27" iMac screen isn't that great overall. If I want to experience a BR movie, I'm not sitting at my computer desk with poor speakers. I want a nice couch, surround sound (mandatory) and a big screen (hint: a 27" is not a big screen anymore)
And if you could get that kind of download speed, they would probably throttle it or cut you off for exceeding your monthly quota. ISPs like Comcast and Verizon don't want you downloading movies - they want you to pay to watch them.
ahhh, so since it doesn't fit your work flow it must be off!! i don't care what the cost, and its up to each to decide, my issue is with not even allowing the choice. There is no justifiable reason in my mind why apple does not support Blu Ray especially being on the board of directors for Blu Ray.
Exactly, ISP's are lining up to start charging you for them. People don't seem to realize the infrastructure upgrades that need to take place across the board for something like that to be available in mass to leverage digital copies. We can't get high speed cellular service nationwide (US) but we suddenly can be running a high speed fiber based network to the consumer?
Exactly, ISP's are lining up to start charging you for them. People don't seem to realize the infrastructure upgrades that need to take place across the board for something like that to be available in mass to leverage digital copies. We can't get high speed cellular service nationwide (US) but we suddenly can be running a high speed fiber based network to the consumer?
Blu-Ray will appear in Macs in 2010. How do I know this?
Well, open Final Cut Pro 7, highlight the timeline content, go to File > Share > Choose Blu-Ray from the drop down and check 'create Blu-Ray Disc'.
Now, why add this to your flagship editing package if Blu-Ray will never be in Macs?
I'm open to explanations....
Well, open Final Cut Pro 7, highlight the timeline content, go to File > Share > Choose Blu-Ray from the drop down and check 'create Blu-Ray Disc'.
Now, why add this to your flagship editing package if Blu-Ray will never be in Macs?
I'm open to explanations....
First of all 2 MB/s != 250 KB/s, you are talking about 2 Mbit = 250 KB/s, theres a difference.
And I doubt Apple would be held back just because America is not such a developed country. In Sweden most people living in cities can get at least 24 Mbit = around 2 MB/s in real life data transfer. And many can get 100 Mbit in the cities too. And Sweden isn't at the top when it comes to supply of high speed internet.
Many countries would have no problem using streamed stuff, hell I stream HD via Voddler all the time 😉. So I think Apple would be able to sell products to the more "high-tech" countries then the states.
Also for the .mkv vs Blue Ray debate. You can compress blue ray with x264 to not lose any picture quality what so ever. What matters is their length and bitrate, you can make em not lose much at all, but then they will be big 😉 So it is possible to rip Blue Ray movies and not be able to distinguish between the rip and the original.
There should be no problem to put in a blu ray writer into a mac pro (for everybody who needs). And the best mac for final cut pro is undoubtably the mac pro.
Icaras
macrumors 603
That doesn't imply that you will be able to play blu-ray movies on the Mac, just that you can burn a blu-ray disk.
Just to add to the clarification. Macs can burn Blu-ray discs. Macs can NOT pla Blu-ray discs, ala Blu-ray movies.
The first USB 3.0 motherboard has been announced. Available next month. Asus.
It also has SATA 6Gbps.
It also has SATA 6Gbps.
But dont forget that Apple was late to the CD-R party way back when. Steve even said that Apple missed it in one of the keynotes.
Just admit it.
Apple lags behind in certain things when it comes to new technologies. I think their main focus is iphone and ipods since they generate the most revenue. PCs hae HDMI output, Blue-ray, HD-DVD, Memory card slots, Express cards. Some of these special feature are standard with their entry level PCs.
With macs, you pay a premium price for the unit, and more $$ for adaptors.
Apple lags behind in certain things when it comes to new technologies. I think their main focus is iphone and ipods since they generate the most revenue. PCs hae HDMI output, Blue-ray, HD-DVD, Memory card slots, Express cards. Some of these special feature are standard with their entry level PCs.
With macs, you pay a premium price for the unit, and more $$ for adaptors.