Check the usual Mac hardware sites for addon and replacement drives.
Your wallet, your choice.
Bob
are macs gonna get a HD-DVD or a Blu RAy superdrive any time soon? and does anyone have any idea which one it will be, if it ever happens.
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are macs gonna get a HD-DVD or a Blu RAy superdrive any time soon? and does anyone have any idea which one it will be, if it ever happens.
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Check the usual Mac hardware sites for addon and replacement drives.
Your wallet, your choice.
Bob
of both the HD-DVD and BluRay forums,
http://www.dvdforum.com/about-memberlist.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association#Members
I would expect them to make a move when it is apparent which side is winning the war - some could argue the point, but my take is the battle still rages on.
In the meantime, LaCie has been around a while and they make good stuff:
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10867
I don't know the significance of Apple's "forum membership" with HD-DVD as opposed to their "Board" membership position with BluRay.
equipment needs to looks elsewhere. Their externals are much more expensive than some other brands, and over $800 for a Blu-Ray reader/writer is too much. Who even writes Blu-Ray movies and discs at home? That's crazy. I'd rather buy a PS3 if I needed to even watch those films. But I have a 360, so I could be stuck with the HD DVD add on for it. Never mind that.
Apple just doesn't seem to be the type to pick sides. They do after all, have movie trailers on their site and sell movies via iTunes. Unless they did something to convert the videos that they sell to one or the other, choosing sides would be stupid. I still think that this format war is ridiculous. Most of us use regular DVDs, since all the big titles are available for those. What is it with this?
Apple should be smart to stay out of it for awhile.
-BMF
LaCie is worth the extra expense. As a Mac user, who has paid more for their computer than for even a brand-name PC, I thought you'd understand that you get what you pay for.
Blu-ray drives in Macs next year, is my bet. Leopard already has the High Definition Content Protection (Digital Restrictions Management) built-in, so it's no big leap to assume that Apple will put the Blu-ray, or even HD-DVD drives, into the Macs soon.
Apple is one of the original signatories of Blu-Ray, along with Samsung and Sony. As to when they'll introduce players (and later burners), it'll probably be when the war is over and parts are cheaper. Apple also chose Blu-Ray in part because Microsoft got behind the other guys. But it'll be a while until Blu-Ray drives wind up in Apple Macs.
I don't understand why they would wait. If a customer wants to spend the extra money for the option of getting Blu-Ray, why wouldn't Apple want to accommodate them?
Both HD and Bluray content creation is supported in the Apple softwares. What you may be wanting is an "offical Apple logo'd recorder." There is many dances to dance till you see Apple do that. But for now it's supported.
Bob
Sony does Blu-Ray in the PS3, but MS puts HD-DVD in the 360. I own a 360, and should Apple incorporate Blu-Ray into any Mac line or as a separate device altogether, I might as well sell it and buy a PS3, LOL. Not that I have the 360 adapter, though. I'm watching the war pass by. Sucks that some good movies go one way while some choose the other. But, I'll choose Blu-Ray of Apple does, should the war go in their favor. It'd be ridiculous for a stalemate to come about in the end, cause then everything would be incompatible with everything else.
The format war is dumb. From what I've seen, Blu-Ray quality and capability is better than HD-DVD (disc-wise) stuff, but I wouldn't choose now. Hey, Apple is the company of innovation, so why can't Steve and Woz develop a new better Hi-Def format that owns the current two? The Apple brand dictates quality and popularity, so long as you forget about the Apple TV and Mac Mini
. But that's a poor assumption.
The day Apple starts selling Blu-Ray stuff is the day everyone will convert to it and get rid of DVDs. I got a new name for the Apple Blu-Ray products: iDef. Blu-Ray HD stuff, but Apple-ized. LOL.
Why should it matter though anyway? My regular DVDs look fine to me.
-BMF
... because competition greatly increases price drops. When blu-ray and HD-DVD drives were first released in retail stores I never imagined that by THIS CHRISTMAS I would see an HD-DVD player being sold for $100!! When they were first released Blu Ray had a couple of $1000 offerings that provided 1080p and there was a 1080p HD-DVD player for $1000 and a 720p/1080i for $500. Now just look at the prices! Thanks to two formats, they've been competing price-wise and now we've got some dang low prices to look at. I am GLAD we have the format war. In the long run our technology will get better faster, and prices will drop faster too. Almost within a year a consumer can now afford a blu ray AND an HD DVD player for the price of just one of those units when they first came out. Competition helps everyone. I admit it's hard to know which format to choose for your own personal library, but having two to choose from prevents a monopoly on the Hi Def content and ultimately benefits us all.
are split between the two. Eventually, you'd have to have both to watch all of your favorite things at home, which is a pain, since then you'd have to have a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD equipped laptop for on-the-go or DVD player. And things like that generally do not support two different things. Blu-Ray does seem superior though. Either way, I bet which ever one wins, all the studios will convert all of their major titles to that if they went with the loser.
In relation to Macs, Apple could be better off offering both for their lineup. You could put both in the Pro, and choose which one you like for the rest of their models. Still, having one or the other now seems like a waste, because, like you said, they could get cheaper and there will be better improvements in the future.
Blu-Ray seems more like Mac style, with the blue color and all, LOL. Plus, MS does HD DVD stuff, even though some PC manufacturers don't, so Apple would probably not join MS.
A blue Apple... that'd be cool to see on a disc drive on a Mac... We shall see in the next year(s).
-BMF