April 6th, 2007, 12:24 PM | #1 |
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Internal Blu-Ray drive for the MacBook Pro
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April 6th, 2007, 12:44 PM | #2 |
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Cool!
great for burning, but will you ba able to playback bl-ray movies and have them play as full 1080p out put through the macbook/Pro's dvi out?
My guess is no. The dvd player in a macbook/pro is just that: a dvd player. Maybe third party bluray play back support will be needed. |
April 6th, 2007, 01:07 PM | #3 |
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After NAB or WWDC I expect that the new macs will support BOTH HD DVD and Blu-Ray as Apple has claimed they will be supporting both formats since both use H.264.
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April 6th, 2007, 01:47 PM | #4 |
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Yeah, but I would love my current 1.83 core duo macbook pro to be able to play back bluray from either store bought movies, or ones I edit then burn to bluray disc via FCP.
Cool none the less. |
April 7th, 2007, 09:04 AM | #5 |
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There are a lot of people complaining about Apple not releasing a built to order Blu-Ray/HD DVD option and the obvious conclusion is that Apple doesn’t want to take sides yet but my theory is that it’s probably because of DRM issues.
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April 7th, 2007, 10:43 AM | #6 |
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I think that they will soon unvail (Likely with Leopard in June) a Dual-Blue Drive that does both. Apple is not just going to keep offering Dual-Layer SD drives. They have claimed to support both formats, and I expect either a combo drive, or the option of either especially now that the Mac Pro's have two slots.
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April 20th, 2007, 08:14 PM | #7 |
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April 21st, 2007, 06:49 PM | #8 |
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The website for the fastmac BD drive mentions NOTHING about playing back movies. Frankly I don't think it can because of HDCP and AACS issues. The thing is why are journalists "assuming" that it does?
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April 27th, 2007, 08:24 PM | #9 |
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It may not be the best Blu-Ray burner but 500 dollars is not a bad deal
http://fastmac.com/slim_bluray.php |
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