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Why doesn't apple make a Blue-Ray "Apple MacBook SuperDrive"?
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Well what would be the point? You can't play back Blu Ray movies on Mac. You could however buy an external Blu Ray drive and use something like MakeMKV to rip it. But Apple isn't going to sell something advertising that.
The licensing fees for a blu-ray player are $9.50, and $14 for a recorder. Not sure if that's changed since the time of this article.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Unified-Bluray-licensing-is-remedy-to-bag-of-hurt/1235601079
Yes, for every device. And Apple is not and will not pay Sony. Instead, they want to destroy Sony in every front - Mobile Phones, Computers, Digital Music, etc.
I don't believe that Apple pays Sony directly, this should be handled by the drive OEM. Anyway, all sorts of things like CD players require royalties, maybe not so much but it's still there.
Steve Jobs says that DRM is a bag of hurt which is probably true but I don't think that is the entire reason either because itunes and ibooks use DRM to varying extents. I think its a combination of Apple trying to push people to iTunes and most people not using optical media anymore so its one extra way for Apple to cut costs.
Steve Jobs says that DRM is a bag of hurt which is probably true but I don't think that is the entire reason either because itunes and ibooks use DRM to varying extents. I think its a combination of Apple trying to push people to iTunes and most people not using optical media anymore so its one extra way for Apple to cut costs.
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/30/steve-jobs-suggests-blu-ray-not-coming-to-mac-anytime-soon/
Apple has no interest in Blu-Ray, and is slowly phasing out optical media altogether. This is old news.
Apple has no interest in Blu-Ray, and is slowly phasing out optical media altogether. This is old news.
As long as Steve is around you will not see Blu-ray on the Mac. Sadly he may not be around much longer. I hate to say that. if you really want or need Blu-ray then do a search on Blu-ray and mac. There are ways to do it. I understand all the arguments against blu-ray but i think we should have the choice.
Apple doesn't buy into anything that isn't permanent...thats why. Simple as that.
Blu-ray might not last..just sayin'
It is still overpriced and not THAT many people use it.
Imagine them making bluray superdrives standard...then bluray goes out of business like HDDVD did or whatever it was called. That made MICROSOFT look dumb...xboxes
Blu-ray might not last..just sayin'
It is still overpriced and not THAT many people use it.
Imagine them making bluray superdrives standard...then bluray goes out of business like HDDVD did or whatever it was called. That made MICROSOFT look dumb...xboxes
That's not how it works. The coding isn't there to support the heavy DRM protocols involved with Blu Ray playback.
Also, it will never, ever happen. Optical media is dying. The only place I see it happening as a BTO option is in the Mac Pros to produce content.
I agree with choice, especially on this (licensing arguments are moot, everything requires licensing). I'm tired of carrying 2 computers everywhere because my Mac laptop can't handle the Blu-ray and gaming chores my lower cost Windows laptop does.
Very annoying, someday someone other than Steve will run things and greater choice may prevail. Until then 2 computers it is.
Cheers,
Newbie question: For the people that really want blue-ray, what exactly would you do with it besides watch movies on the lap top? Is there some other use?
A friend of mine recently bought an HD camera and was trying to find a computer that had a blue-ray recorder to store movies. First of all, he could not find any at two large brick and mortars. Second, he was intimidated by the cost of $10 per disc blank. $10 bucks per disc would kill that deal for me, i guess this is more money going back to Sony. Maybe this is part of the reason why blue-ray has not taken off?
A friend of mine recently bought an HD camera and was trying to find a computer that had a blue-ray recorder to store movies. First of all, he could not find any at two large brick and mortars. Second, he was intimidated by the cost of $10 per disc blank. $10 bucks per disc would kill that deal for me, i guess this is more money going back to Sony. Maybe this is part of the reason why blue-ray has not taken off?
If Blu-ray came out 10 years ago it would've taken over the world.
So far DVD seems to have a good balance between quality and file size (when I rip them)...
Also it's not too expensive to burn one. and most presentation hall has DVD players.