Does apple at all support blu-ray?

[brentsg]

Blu-ray isn't going anywhere anytime soon. If it remains a niche, which is fine with me... it will be because people with crappy displays are content with DVD.

People that predict Blu-ray's demise due to downloaded HD content need to get together with the other groups predicting that the internet is approaching its limitations already, without digital downloads being mainstream.

Any "HD" downloads I've seen have been low-res overcompressed video with limited sound.

 

[localoid]

Speaking about optical drives, Nick004 said:

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The things are relics. Downloads and flash drives are the future.

Downloads and flash drives might work for consumer programs like iLife and other tiny little programs but they wouldn't be ideal for many of the pro apps used by professionals who use Macs to earn their living. For example, Logic Pro's sound files alone are ~40 GB in size and some third-party professional sound libraries can be 200 GB is size or even larger.

 

[Tallest Skil]

If the answer is no, how come the apple logo is in this photo??

http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/05/1...tion-working-to-create-a-standard-for-home-3/

No. Not in the least. You can read natively and burn Blu-ray data disks with third-party software. You cannot play HDCP movies, but can play non-HDCP movies.

Because they've been on the board since aught four.

 

[dsnort]

it will be because people with crappy displays are content with DVD.

Nice assumption, but wrong. I have several HDTV's, Standard Def still looks fine.

 

[317342]

DVDs look beautiful on my 42" Samsung Plasma HDTV (via Xbox 360), not worth the cost to buy a BD player + $30 disc for the same movie on a $7 DVD.

Apple TV look good too.

 

[GreatDrok]

DVDs look beautiful on my 42" Samsung Plasma HDTV (via Xbox 360), not worth the cost to buy a BD player + $30 disc for the same movie on a $7 DVD.

Apple TV look good too.

Well, I have a Blu-ray player, Xbox 360 with HD DVD drive, Apple TV and even a DVD/LD combi player and they are all hooked up to a 27" LCD panel and a 100" DLP front projection system. Blu-ray, HD DVD and ATV HD rentals destroy DVD (played on the BD player) and LD. There isn't a massive difference on the 27" set but once you rock up to a decent size (anything over 60" say) you're going to wish for HD. I don't tend to buy any movies at full price though since I waited a while for BD (mainly so I could get a player which could be de-zoned for DVD easily) so there is a pretty good back catalogue of BDs. Often I get the BD for less than the price of the DVD.

I am less interested in getting BD on my laptop or desktop machines though since the screen size doesn't justify it. Nice to be able to rip HD movies to my ATV though, or for my iPod but an external drive, Parallels with Windows, AnyDVD HD and HandBrake gets me there just fine. I really don't want to lug discs anywhere these days. A bunch of decent SD rips in iTunes works for travelling purposes.

 

[Cave Man]

You cannot play HDCP movies, but can play non-HDCP movies.

And decrypted.

 

[Tallest Skil]

And decrypted.

Well, yes, but you can't do that in OS X. You can do it with Apple's hardware, just not in OS X.

 

[JeepGuy]

Well, yes, but you can't do that in OS X. You can do it with Apple's hardware, just not in OS X.

With all likelihood we would probably see a solution from Slysoft before Apple. There have been hints of an OSX/Linux version in the works, player and decoder, We can only hope it comes soon.