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robertrogoz

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Next year please include HDMI with your computers. Also BD drive read and write, so I can watch BD disc on the road with my laptop. Also please include real BD authoring, not some funky work around. And also USB3!
Mr Jobs- you are a very clever man, but not every vision you have agrees with the rest of the population. I am a loyal Mac user, but have another look at this- would make a lot of people happy with these small changes.
 
after it took them about 5 years to include the texting thing on the iphone...yeah..highly unlikely

stop buying their crap ass computers!


-written on a macbook
 
Steve Jobs has openly said he doesn't think Blu-Ray support is going to be a big deal.

Not that the man hasn't ever changed his mind... but Apple's whole setup seems to be on the side of digital downloads... I don't think you'll see BluRay support. Not from Apple, anyhow.
 
So how does he suggest we deliver high def movies from Final Cut Pro? Surely not through DVD Studio Pro! Seems like a piece is missing in that puzzle!
 
Hawk Teflon said:
So how does he suggest we deliver high def movies from Final Cut Pro? Surely not through DVD Studio Pro! Seems like a piece is missing in that puzzle!
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By streaming.

Which is why he also hates Flash. Flash and blu-ray conflict with the Apple future of "all media delivered by the iTunes store, to an AppleTV or iOS4 device."
 
Hawk Teflon said:
So how does he suggest we deliver high def movies from Final Cut Pro? Surely not through DVD Studio Pro! Seems like a piece is missing in that puzzle!
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AppleTV.

Can't say I think that's a great answer... but it seems to be what Apple wants us to do.
Of course, no one is... so ... yeah...
 
1. HDMI.... There's a port on current Macs called MiniDisplay Port. You can buy a MiniDisplay Port to HDMI adapter. I have one I bought of eBay for about $10 and it works great.

2. Blu-ray..... Not going to happen. Jobs said it's not necessary and quite frankly it's really not. Blu-ray is dead, people just don't know it yet. Streaming is the future and Apple won't spend money or time or resources on something it knows is going to go the way of the dinosaurs in the next couple of years.
 
Postmaster said:
I don´t like the Apple attitude, but yeah, BluRay was dead from day one.

Frank
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Completely disagree. I use it every week, and I am darn glad it's here. Not necessiarly for video delivery, but for data backup. Storing 50GB or 25GB in the physical space of a CD has revolutionized my backup procedures.
 
Well, Mac's can support data Blu-Ray burns if you buy a compatible burner and pair it with Toast. I guess that's a plus of Blu-Ray... but I concur that BR for HD video delivery was dead fairly early on.
 
Encore CS 3/4/5 on a Mac supports blu ray authoring.

So does Toast 9/10. If you have blu ray clients, those are five Macintosh based solutions.

Apple is a shareholder held company. It is in the business of making money, which means that some of its decisions are not going to be acceptable to some of its consumers.

Hey, if you don't like what it is doing, change apps or platforms. These are tools. Find the ones you need, and use them.

The other relatively inexpensive option you have is to install Windows in Bootcamp, and find a PC based solution for blu ray authoring.

There are several, and some are quite feature rich. I just bought a blu ray burner for under a hundred dollars, and installed it internally in a MacPro.

External blu ray burners with USB2/eSATA/Firewire ports are also relatively cheap.

I'd prefer a comprehensive Apple blu ray authoring app, but if I had clients willing to pay, I use the ones suggested rather than waiting for Apple.

A company can't be everything to every customer, and Apple will always go where the money is. It's no different than any company that is shareholder owned.
 
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PerroneFord said:
Completely disagree. I use it every week, and I am darn glad it's here. Not necessiarly for video delivery, but for data backup. Storing 50GB or 25GB in the physical space of a CD has revolutionized my backup procedures.
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And it'll get quite a bit more interesting with cameras like the AF100; the AVCHD format is directly copyable to, and PLAYABLE from, blu-ray discs. So you can actually plug an AF100 into a blu-ray recorder and the recorder will copy all the data off bit-for-bit accurately as data, but then you can search your archive by actually playing the footage on a blu-ray player. Kind of neat. It's giving you the best of both worlds, tape and data, by doing that. And while I never thought of blu-ray as a practical backup medium for P2, the smaller file sizes of AVCHD make it infinitely more practical. 50GB gives you about five hours of content on one disc.
 
Apple doesn't want to pay licensing to Sony for Bluray use and is pushing for downloads. But I agree that it would have been nice to have on apple gear. Of course you can upgrade the hardware yourself. Ever since Apple stopped developing Shake, I've been a little sceptical of future Pro Apps and hardware from them. Sigh.... because I sure like working in OSX.
 
PerroneFord said:
Completely disagree. I use it every week, and I am darn glad it's here. Not necessiarly for video delivery, but for data backup. Storing 50GB or 25GB in the physical space of a CD has revolutionized my backup procedures.
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Agree, for data backup it´s a whole different story.

Frank
 
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