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Is the new retina display Macbook Pro play Blu-ray better?

Jul 9, 2012 8:11PM PDT

Apple lanch its newest Macbook Pro with the retina display, with which Mac users can enjoy everything remarkably vibrant, detailed, and sharp.
Blu-ray is the new standurd of HD, will you enjoy a better effect on the newest Macbook Pro than the olders ones?

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No, the resolution of the previous Macbook Pro
Jul 9, 2012 9:56PM PDT

screen was greater than HD and Blue-Ray does not increase the resolution of the displayed video.

1,920x1,080 is the resolution of HD and the resolution of a Pre-Retina Macbook Pro is greater than this.

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Technically
Jul 10, 2012 12:53AM PDT

Technically HD is 720p, Full HD is 1080p. Leave it to the marketing types to confuse the issue. Just like USB 2.0 is marketed as hi-speed USB or something like that, and the older 1.1 is full speed USB.

So 1280x720 is HD, and then 1920x1080 is full HD.

And I would say that, if anything, the higher resolution on the new MBPs will SLOW down video rendering. Not that you'll notice because there's an excess of processing power, but the player software has to figure out how to "blow up" the image to fit on the screen. So that's just a little bit of extra work that needs to be done for every frame of the video. Again, not that you'd ever notice this is going on, but it is, and the hardware based video acceleration on the OS X platform is lagging quite a ways behind Windows, so you will be more likely to see it on OS X than Windows.