Considering all of the threads on this forum about how much Steve hates Blu Ray, this is kind of a funny question. 
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Will we ever see a OSX on blu ray
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Considering all of the threads on this forum about how much Steve hates Blu Ray, this is kind of a funny question.
This poor horse has been beaten to death over the past couple of years. For those who never bothered to search for those threads, the general consensus is: 1) Blu-ray won't be used in Macs due to licensing issues, and; 2) there won't be Blu-ray in a Mac until there is a 9.7mm SLOT loading Blu-ray player.
Well I guess obviously you first have to have macs from the factory with bluray players in them, for 12 - 24 months, so they are fairly common in the marketplace.
I would guess, that maybe Apple will come up with some sort of online install system, that you can "somehow" boot the machine to a network/Ethernet connection and install from their servers somewhere.
The average users probably never users their restore system discs anyway.
BluRay is not gonna happen, it's a matter of principle for Steve Jobs. As long as he exists at Apple there won't be any official BluRay support.
On the other side with USB 3 nothing will stop 3rd parties anymore from supplying external Blu-Ray drives with their own software to play movies.
On the other side with USB 3 nothing will stop 3rd parties anymore from supplying external Blu-Ray drives with their own software to play movies.
I'm in for BluRay, I have satellite service and have a daily download limit of 200Mb. Hardly enough to support CLOUD, ATV, iTunes and the rest. That would essentially cut me out of any new services offered. I guess we will have to figure out how to transmit on Barbed Wire fences used for COWS. I can't even get a cell phone to work in my area.
I think in the future we wont see OSs on dvd or bluray for that matter.
Cloud or usb is my guess.
Cloud or usb is my guess.
Blu ray movies are also heavily compressed. An uncompressed two hour movie is in the terabytes.
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Apple will def support blu-ray when it's feasible to do so. Right now they have a lot of licensing issues to work out, plus they really believe it to be unnecessary (for most people). I don't really know why they think that, but they do.
But either way, hopefully OS X never gets big enough to require a BD!
Apple will def support blu-ray when it's feasible to do so. Right now they have a lot of licensing issues to work out, plus they really believe it to be unnecessary (for most people). I don't really know why they think that, but they do.
But either way, hopefully OS X never gets big enough to require a BD!
I'm not entirely sure about Snow Leopard, but I believe Leopard was on a dual-layer DVD because of the fact that it has both PPC and Intel code on it. If I'm not mistaken though, the OEM Leopard discs that came with Intel Macs were single layer.