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Blu-Ray may be on it’s way!
This was just posted on Macrumors.com
“Financial Times reported that in the wake of Sony’s Blu-ray win over HD-DVD, that Sony is in talks with both Microsoft and Apple about inclusion of Blu-ray with future machines. Microsoft had previously been shipping an HD-DVD accessory for their Xbox 360, so their adoption of Blu-ray would represent a significant turnaround.
Apple, however, has not yet shipped any high definition drives with any of their computers. They’ve instead focused on distributing digital content through their iTunes Store.
With the demise of the HD-DVD format, it seems only a matter of time before Apple adopts Blu-ray drives in their machines.”
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[Chris Babbitt] “With the demise of the HD-DVD format, it seems only a matter of time before Apple adopts Blu-ray drives in their machines.” “
Duh. If you want to pay for it, you can get a 3rd party drive in your laptop right now.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Duh. If you want to pay for it, you can get a 3rd party drive in your laptop right now.”
Yep $999 for the laptop and only $539 for the desktop. they work great too.
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[Chris Babbitt] “With the demise of the HD-DVD format, it seems only a matter of time before Apple adopts Blu-ray drives in their machines.” “
I think it is more likely that Apple is not offering BlueRay drives yet because they haven’t yet updated DVD SP to support BlueRay burning.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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I love this thread… we do it every couple weeks and I just can’t get enough. Blu-Ray is so sexy, but I would be surprised if we see BD Studio Pro this year. If it exists, it will be THE product that brings real BD authoring to those of us outside of huge studios, and I feel like it would be big enough to Apple to stick with NAB for 1 more year.
I know the Encore / Toast Blu-Ray workflow has gained some traction, and right now it’s what there is, but it doesn’t get you a replicated, first-class, BD title.
There’s a lot that has to go into making software which allows a non-programmer end user to author a true BD title (as opposed to a DVD with HD assets on a high capacity disc). To make it flexible enough that we can make what we want instead of using cookie cutter templates must take triple or quadruple the work.
I’d love to see it happen, but I’m convinced it’s crazy hard after reading the BD white paper and watching some of Sun’s materials about Java for Blu-Ray. As long as Apple can sell machines and avoid the extra cost while selling boatloads of iTunes downloads then the incentive may never really be there until a competitor shows up with a sub-$5000 app.
My 2 cents,
Zak
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