Non Glare sceen is essential.
As far as I know, this hasn't been hurting Apple's bottom line.
Though a geniune -non glass- MATT screen, like the one on my MacBook Pro 15" that I ordered on an upgrade is best but not happening. As the glass on the ipad evolves for each generation, so we hope each iMac that comes out will brandish the same one as well!
The only problem I see with adding a matte option is that Apple will have to remove the glass on the black bezel, like they had to with the Macbook Pro 15" and the Macbook Airs. However, this works for the macbook line because the display is separate from the main computer. The iMac, in it's design, is not. So if you take a closer look at the iMac from the side you'll obviously notice that the glass is a noticeable layer that meets the chin of the iMac. Remove that glass and now you have a horridly unstreamlined appearance. You could propose an idea to add a replacement silver bezel layer to it, but then you would have a
line in the design, a break if you will; absolutely no-no in Apple's book (unless you're talking about of course iPhone 4 antennas). What's the other solution? Creating a second subset of unibody chassis designs to accommodate a glass-less iMac? Now that's going to complicate manufacturing and production.
I think a matte option for the currently designed iMac is never going to happen. Actually, until the chin goes away permanently, I don't think Apple can ever opt for a matte display, unless they are willing to complicate their manufacturing.
Remember large mac monitors screens a few years ago, including 30" were pure screen and zero glass!
And as a result, the display was not flush, end to end like it is now.
blu-ray of course.... cant keep hiding from it and not letting the now millions of owners not playback their blu-ray discs. forcing them to buy the vastly now inferior dvd format.
Never going to happen. ODD is already gone from Macbook Air and Mac Mini already. The direction Apple is heading is in the opposite direction of blu-rays.
Furthermore, the iTunes store is now filled with 1080p content as of Wednesday. Forget the arguments about bitrates and whatnot. Although blu-ray will still be technically superior, Apple now has better leverage with it's movies and TV show market. Now they can tout 1080p next to blu-ray, and you can bet they'll push the iTunes store strategy as hard as they can and work more vigorously with the studios to gain more digital content.
OLED and or Retina display. how these would ever work together is not understood by myself.
if using only LED as the lighting it needs to be micro dimming not just backlit.
I personally can't wait for OLEDs and retina displays, however considering the iPad's 9.7" display
just got updated to retina, you can bet a retina display on a monster 27" iMac ain't happening anytime soon.
As for OLEDs, LG will be releasing their killer CES show stopper OLED later this year so this market is just around the corner.
finally it must play full 1080 P R O G R E S S I V E video as good as the best Samsung HDTV montiors which do connect to a apple!!
Um, iMacs have been displaying 1080p for quite some time now? And Samsung isn't the leader in HDTV video quality so it shouldn't be difficult to achieve that. Actually, I'm not sure but the displays shipping currently with iMacs today might already be from Samsung or LG (someone can check that).
They iMac can most definitely get 'even' thinner.
