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Blu-ray Support Coming to iTunes?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Posted by: Brian
The iTunes 8.2 beta was released to developers earlier this evening alongside the latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta. No biggie, but here is where it gets a little interesting. This version of iTunes references DVD, Blu-ray Disc and video-related data from Gracenote in the About iTunes window. The same section in iTunes 8.1.1 only mentions CD and music-related data from Gracenote. Could this mean that Blu-ray support is finally on the way to iTunes and Mac OS X? I sure hope so! The thought of having a Mac mini-based media center with Blu-ray support brings a smile to my face.
http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1203.html
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| I would order the Sony slimline from Newegg tomorrow. This "bag of hurt" stance really needs to end. |
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I have my doubts. It could just be a change in the licensing terms or something Gracenote requires. Plus, I think Apple is too arrogant these days to go back on the Blu-ray being a bag of hurt statement. You're going to get your HD downloads and rentals from us and enjoy them dammit! Choice schmoice.  |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| I'm all for adding Blu-ray playback. Hurry up already! |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:24 am Post subject: |
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| You do Notice that of apple provided blu-ray support for the mac that it most likely will be only on the more expensive models. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| macmanmacman wrote: | | You do Notice that of apple provided blu-ray support for the mac that it most likely will be only on the more expensive models. |
That doesn't prevent you from doing the upgrade on your own though. You should be able to use any Blu-ray once the support is built into the operating system or iTunes. Buying a drive from the likes of Newegg should also cost less money. I'm sure Apple will be asking top dollar for their Macs with a Blu-ray player or BTO upgrades. |
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LE Studios
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| Huff wrote: | | I would order the Sony slimline from Newegg tomorrow. This "bag of hurt" stance really needs to end. |
Yeah right, I won't support Blu-ray till I see George Lucas put Star Wars Saga on Blu-Ray. When I see that then I support Blu-ray, but the big funny will be what if George Lucas put it on iTunes as a HD Digital Exclusive for a year? 
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| LE Studios wrote: | | Yeah right, I won't support Blu-ray till I see George Lucas put Star Wars Saga on Blu-Ray. When I see that then I support Blu-ray, but the big funny will be what if George Lucas put it on iTunes as a HD Digital Exclusive for a year? |
I think Spike TV has the exclusive on that one. It seems like they play them in HD every other day.  |
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The only use for Gracenote as far as I know is when you are ripping media, and iTunes will never support ripping DVDs or Blueray. I'd say this is a cut-and-paste mistake.
iTunes is a horrible way to watch video anyway.
Anyway, blueray support requires very heavy underlying OS support, you can't just write an app to play blueray disks, you have to re-engineer the whole OS around it if you want to keep to the licence agreement.
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About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
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LE Studios
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| ESUNintel wrote: | About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
Dude, 720p MPEG-4 Video file from iTunes will do more justice to a MacBook then a Blu-Ray Drive! 1) Battery Life and 2) ONLY MacBook you will see 1920 x 1080 is the 17" MacBook Pro other then that consider 720 x 1280 as a 4GB file where with a 50GB Blu-Ray size space can hold at least ten 720p HD Movies on your hard drive. 
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| LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
Dude, 720p MPEG-4 Video file from iTunes will do more justice to a MacBook then a Blu-Ray Drive! 1) Battery Life and 2) ONLY MacBook you will see 1920 x 1080 is the 17" MacBook Pro other then that consider 720 x 1280 as a 4GB file where with a 50GB Blu-Ray size space can hold at least ten 720p HD Movies on your hard drive. |
...ya, you're right. I don't care about a computer having a BD drive that much anymore. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a nice option, but I think I prefer digital content over a disk now.
I just hope Apple does release a powerful little computer, something like the Vaio TT or Vaio P (but more powerful). |
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LE Studios
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| ESUNintel wrote: | | LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
Dude, 720p MPEG-4 Video file from iTunes will do more justice to a MacBook then a Blu-Ray Drive! 1) Battery Life and 2) ONLY MacBook you will see 1920 x 1080 is the 17" MacBook Pro other then that consider 720 x 1280 as a 4GB file where with a 50GB Blu-Ray size space can hold at least ten 720p HD Movies on your hard drive. |
...ya, you're right. I don't care about a computer having a BD drive that much anymore. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a nice option, but I think I prefer digital content over a disk now.
I just hope Apple does release a powerful little computer, something like the Vaio TT or Vaio P (but more powerful). |
MacBook Air can beat that Vaio P for sure and it has 1.86GHz Core Duo 2 with 6MB L2 Cache and 128GB SSD compared to Vaio P that a single 1.33GHz Pentium processor. Either way Apple definitely got Sony VAIO line beat especially since its a PC and uses Windows Vista and or Windows 7. Apple's Mac OS X Leopard and soon Snow Leopard is lightyears away. Also remember Apple is not just a software company but design its hardware for its software. Can't get no better than that. 
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| LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | | LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
Dude, 720p MPEG-4 Video file from iTunes will do more justice to a MacBook then a Blu-Ray Drive! 1) Battery Life and 2) ONLY MacBook you will see 1920 x 1080 is the 17" MacBook Pro other then that consider 720 x 1280 as a 4GB file where with a 50GB Blu-Ray size space can hold at least ten 720p HD Movies on your hard drive. |
...ya, you're right. I don't care about a computer having a BD drive that much anymore. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a nice option, but I think I prefer digital content over a disk now.
I just hope Apple does release a powerful little computer, something like the Vaio TT or Vaio P (but more powerful). |
MacBook Air can beat that Vaio P for sure and it has 1.86GHz Core Duo 2 with 6MB L2 Cache and 128GB SSD compared to Vaio P that a single 1.33GHz Pentium processor. Either way Apple definitely got Sony VAIO line beat especially since its a PC and uses Windows Vista and or Windows 7. Apple's Mac OS X Leopard and soon Snow Leopard is lightyears away. Also remember Apple is not just a software company but design its hardware for its software. Can't get no better than that. |
I have the Air and Vaio P, and I know the Air can beat the Vaio P for sure, and the Vaio TT (have never had a TT or TZ) as well. ...I'm just weird, and I rather sacrifice performance for portability. ...what I was trying to say is that Apple shouldn't forget those that want a laptop that weighs under 3lbs, and that want something smaller than the Air, again, take the TT for instance, 2.87lbs, 10.99(W), .93(H), 7.87(D); the Air only beats the Height. ...it just bothers me that Apple has forgotten that there's a few people out there that want something that small, but that's still capable of playing digital content without issues. |
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LE Studios
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| ESUNintel wrote: | | LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | | LE Studios wrote: | | ESUNintel wrote: | About time (if true)!! ...Steve Jobs did say Apple would wait for Blu-ray technology to become adopted by more, and it's happening.
I would so be willing to carry the weight of a MacBook if a BD drive is added, or maybe Apple can release a computer that's as cool as a Sony Vaio TT ...but with OS X of course. |
Dude, 720p MPEG-4 Video file from iTunes will do more justice to a MacBook then a Blu-Ray Drive! 1) Battery Life and 2) ONLY MacBook you will see 1920 x 1080 is the 17" MacBook Pro other then that consider 720 x 1280 as a 4GB file where with a 50GB Blu-Ray size space can hold at least ten 720p HD Movies on your hard drive. |
...ya, you're right. I don't care about a computer having a BD drive that much anymore. I'm not saying it wouldn't be a nice option, but I think I prefer digital content over a disk now.
I just hope Apple does release a powerful little computer, something like the Vaio TT or Vaio P (but more powerful). |
MacBook Air can beat that Vaio P for sure and it has 1.86GHz Core Duo 2 with 6MB L2 Cache and 128GB SSD compared to Vaio P that a single 1.33GHz Pentium processor. Either way Apple definitely got Sony VAIO line beat especially since its a PC and uses Windows Vista and or Windows 7. Apple's Mac OS X Leopard and soon Snow Leopard is lightyears away. Also remember Apple is not just a software company but design its hardware for its software. Can't get no better than that. |
I have the Air and Vaio P, and I know the Air can beat the Vaio P for sure, and the Vaio TT (have never had a TT or TZ) as well. ...I'm just weird, and I rather sacrifice performance for portability. ...what I was trying to say is that Apple shouldn't forget those that want a laptop that weighs under 3lbs, and that want something smaller than the Air, again, take the TT for instance, 2.87lbs, 10.99(W), .93(H), 7.87(D); the Air only beats the Height. ...it just bothers me that Apple has forgotten that there's a few people out there that want something that small, but that's still capable of playing digital content without issues. |
Yeah Apple didn't forget thats why we have the iPhone & iPod Touch. Like I said in another forum we stick with what you got somethings are not for everybody.
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