Yeah like you need to swap discs very often when watching a movie
How often? I gues everytime i would want to watch a movie.
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How often? I gues everytime i would want to watch a movie.
If I've followed correctly, people have indicated that there is authoring support for Blu-ray right? Does this not include writing data during back ups?
Meanwhile, anything Apple Inc does CAN be justified by whether its in Apple Inc's best business interest. Since none of us are Apple Inc management, we have no idea whats in their best interest. Apple is not here to placate users or even to create the best, most complete products. They are here to make a profit. What CAN'T be justified is Apple NOT nickel-and-diming consumers for 720p downloads if there is a market that will go for it. Additionally, its unjustifiable that Apple would include a technology in its product matrix that wouldn't contribute enough to the bottom line to offset the cost, according to Apple Inc's standards, not forum thread CEO's.
In the end, Apple is a for-profit corporation, ultimately justified by their balance sheet, income statement, and stock price. (None of which are currently a bag of hurt.)
What's so inconvenient about having an external drive if you've got a MacBook/iMac?
For people with Mac Pros, theres this: http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/
One way or another, you just need to plug it in - and it just works. I can't imagine sweating blood just to do that.
And you just use Toast Titanium to burn your data blu-ray discs.
I'm sure everyone already uses Toast Titanium as well?
So what's the big deal?
There is no way to watch Blu Ray movies in Mac OS.
Apple have not built the software and nobody else has or appears to be interested in it.
Well said, this covers it's all. Blu-Ray will never be added because it's hurting their own business. It's simple as that and same is valid for Flash on iPhone. They don't care about what some consumers want. They want to make maximum profits. They are no different than any other company like Microsoft, Dell, HP or Acer. Only difference is that unlike other hardware manufacturers they are also in the content business. And damn, these interests might bite each other.
What is this problem you speak of? Oh well.. I buy the Mac and it work real good with the 3.0 USB they makes if invented true the the story.We've already gone over that, and I wasn't even responding to that issue.
(Even if you can't watch them on Mac OS X so easily, you can still back them up fine)
Trust me, Acer, HP and all the rest of them aren't going to include Blu-Ray if they don't make a profit either.
Ripping movies is very covenient
Yes, because i do it once (have whole workflow for it). I need iTunes compatible version anyway.
Why do you want to hook up over HDMI if it only outputs 960 x 640, ie: VGA resolution?
The Droid X only can get up to 32gb aswell remember. That's the maximum memory card size it will take.
But it sounds like you want a Droid X. I'd advise for you to buy one of them if you want it. If not, see how this press conference goes today, and if you are still not satisfied look elsewhere.
That's a workaround that might work. Some Blu-ray discs won't play for me and the quality is not always that good. About 80% of my discs play fine though. Not as elegant as putting a disc in your mac and play the movie.
In the PC OEM world, they have to compete based on spec sheets and prices. Since they all run windows they cant really compete on things like software. BluRay makes them perceived as better, even if the person buying it wont even use it.
I'm considering making a script or a VLC plugin, that connects the two together without the user noticing.
Sell it for bucks!
Good reminder that Steve Jobs isn't always right...and in fact often as you say - dictates what we need. Don't forget that he has also indicated we don't need Flash on our mobile devices. Also on the first couple of generations of iPhone it was decided that you didn't need to be able to record video.
As to the Blu-Ray issue. The market data shows that blu-ray is off to a strong start and is gaining a market penetration faster than DVD did back in its infancy. To those that say they don't see the point of blu-ray and are satisfied with DVD - clearly they either 1) don't have a 1080P TV and 2) don't have a high end home theater/audio system. I am running a 7.1 surround set up on Definitive speakers and the lossless audio on blu-ray makes it worth it. When you download high definition content you aren't getting the lossless audio. Granted - on an iMac or other computer you don't have a high end surround sound set up - but if you had a MacMini hooked up to your home theater set up...you might.
Either way - Jobs is mistaken here (just like Flash and the first couple generations of iPhone lacking MMS, video recording, cut and paste, multitasking, etc. and the current iPhone lacking a Wi-Fi hot spot option) and needs to see the opportunity to not just offer the best looking devices with the most downloadable applications - but the best featured ones as well.
The Mac and iPhone platforms could be (and arguably should be given their premium price) the best featured technology products on the market. A $4,000 Mac Pro computer should have no excuses just like a $3,000 iMac. To be a no excuses computer - they need to offer blu-ray drives.
Same goes for the iPhone/iPad. To be a no excuses mobile product they need to support Flash and offer wi-fi hot spot functionality - AT&T be damned. Android devices will soon offer a similar number of applications and Apple will no longer have that advantage over their fastest growing competitors.
The Droid X can play back 720P resolution over the HDMI out put - not bad for a home movie off your phone.
As to the memory...the phone has 8gb of internal memory which can be supplemented by either a 16 bg or 32 gb microsd card. That means the phone has either 24gb or 40 gb of storage if my math is correct.
As to a smart phone purchase...I have been waiting for weeks to see what Apple is going to do with the iP4. I won't make a decision until 1) I see what Jobs has to say and 2) to see how the "fix" proposed (whatever that may be hardware or software) helps the issue.