Blu-Ray enabled Macbook Pro

I'm not entirely surprised that there's no BD - Apple for example only supported HD-DVD authoring with their pro apps (Final Cut Studio etc). Can't see it happening any time soon to be honest, which is a shame.
 
vertica said:
This still makes no sense as apple were on the board of directors for the blu-ray project. They put vast sums of money into the development along with Sony, Samsung and Panasonic etc

Board of Directors:
Apple, Inc.
Dell
HP
Hitachi
Intel Corporation
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.
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Many years before they had video on the iTunes store perchance?
 
Bah, if they don't do Blu-Ray soon (at least on the pro machines) I'll be gutted.

I would have kept my Mac Pro if I could properly watch and edit HD movies.
 
Apple will have to get blu-ray in soon or they will loose more sales, they target high end users with the MacBook Pro and MacPro who are spending 1.8k+ these people will know what a high res screen is and will be looking for being able to playback blu-rays as these are the people that will have bought into blu-ray first. When one of the main uses for a MacPro is video editing it is ironic that it can't play back a HD disc that a £500 Dell Laptop can.
 
Apple does what Apple does and that's the way it it's always been and yet people are still jumping ship to them a quite a rate.

Apple will give us Blu-Ray but as normal it will be on their terms... :rolleyes:

:D
 
yashiro said:
No one cares about support for 720p (1280x720) resolution, it is assumed as the norm.
People are buying products that can do 1080 this is what consumers are looking for.
This also means that the best delivery method for huge amounts of data at this time is Blu-Ray.

You can make the case for downloads from apple or wherever but at the end of the day, net connections are too slow and impractical.
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my vaio doesnt have a 1080p display but i can play bluray quite fine of course. if i were serious about bluray id have a much larger display to watch bluray on and i do - and of course my laptop will output 1080p over hdmi to that display quite fine.

Even still, on my laptop's 1600x900 display it does just fine with bluray films. no it isnt 1080p, no it isnt as god as my panasonic but then.....my panasonic plasma cost the same amount as my laptop. to be quite honest a 1080p diplay is not needed for bluray playback on a laptop. if people are specifically buying a laptop with a high res display just for bluray playback then they should know better!
 
vertica said:
This still makes no sense as apple were on the board of directors for the blu-ray project. They put vast sums of money into the development along with Sony, Samsung and Panasonic etc

Board of Directors:
Apple, Inc.
Dell
HP
Hitachi
Intel Corporation
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.
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The fact the Apple CEO and Pixar's CEO was the same person when trying to get the Blu-Ray board together wont hurt.

As for BluRay, there is little point in having BluRay on a laptop, don't need 1080p on a 17inch screen tbh. Although it should still be an option on all macs.

I think the main gripe apple have is probably their proprietary connections to screens.
 
james.miller said:
you think the unibody is an example of innovation?
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So what is it then? How many laptops had a a full aluminium unibody before Apple?

Apple said:
Until now, all notebooks were designed the same way. By assembling multiple pieces to create a single enclosure. But once you include all the necessary parts, you add size, weight, complexity, and more opportunities for failure. Solving a problem like this required more than an incremental change. It required a breakthrough. To create the new MacBook, the design and engineering teams devised a way to replace many parts with just one. That one part is called the unibody — a seamless enclosure carved from a single piece of aluminum.
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LordSplodge said:
So what is it then? How many laptops had a a full aluminium unibody before Apple?
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the concept of milling a body from a single piece of aluminium, well any metal really, on a CNC is not a new one. no laptop has been designed that way before - ok fine, but it has been done in other fields before. Thats not to take away from the feat at all - Apple have done a great job, but i wouldnt class it as innovation like i would the touch wheel on the first ipods. the mating of the wheel and the UI is an innovation to me, but since the definition of innovation is not exactly set in stone then you're opinion may well differ:)

remember, it might be machined from a single piece of alu., but its still a top and bottom screwed together. the case is not one single piece of alu.
 
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james.miller said:
remember, it might be machined from a single piece of alu., but its still a top and bottom screwed together. the case is not one single piece of alu.
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Yeah - the unibody term is bogus seeing as the body (ignoring screen) is at least two or three parts attached together.

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The fact that the separate parts come from the same source block of aluminium doesn't make a blind bit of difference to the consumer, so public use of the term is just misleading marketing!
 
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Of course, you and I both know that but its the sort of critisism that falls on deaf ears where apple is concerned. Another 'fact' ; apple weren't the first to appear with that style keyboard - SONY were.
 
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james.miller said:
Of course, you and I both know that but its the sort of critisism that falls on deaf ears where apple is concerned. Another 'fact' ; apple weren't the first to appear with that style keyboard - SONY were.
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It would be nigh on impossible to mill a solid enclosure for a laptop. The only way I could think of doing it without having 2 pieces is to leave an end open and slide the innards in on a tray, however that would still be a challenge :o

I agree it's not an innovation, but merely a well executed (aesthetically) example of CNC machining.
 
Once demand starts increasing more, Blue Ray will be included, no point including a feature that a lot of people won't use. I know maybe 1 or 2 people that have any blue ray media, not that that fact matters. I'm not saying it isn't good, just it needs a little more time to become mainstream :) then we will see it, I mean they only just in the last year included a DVD writer in the base model :D
 
i think thats part of the frustration for some people - apple are very quick at dropping standards people are still using but very slow at adopting standards people will want.


Still, i dont personally think bluray is all that usefull on a laptop. Sure mine plays blurays well, and it outputs audio and video over hdmi to a tv just fine too, but its still a bit clunky anf slow compared to a stand alone player. its great when your on the move but then you only just about get the length of a film out of the battery so...meh. Mines a recorder as well but ill be honest, with the price of blank discs as they are ive never written a bluray yet.
 
Yeah very true james.miller, I work at a store and I can't help notice that each time a product is announced people are getting less and less enthused, the development has kind of stagnated recently, focussing on relatively unimportant aesthetic improvements, maybe it allows them to save money and advance internal designs for the future, but I hope they do something spectacualr this year. Or perhaps I'm being to critical :)
 
Im not buying any more DVDs now, only blu-rays.

And im torn between getting a PS3 or a Blu-ray drive to watch them on.

If the 1080p trailers are anything to go by, im sold.
 
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