Oh noes teh sky is falling!

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by bferr1

I think the only way you can have a true film-like look is to have a 35mm projector running movies on 35mm film. Since most of us can't afford that, Blu-ray is the closest approximation we have at this time. Yes, it may not be as good as actual film, but it's the best looking, highest quality home format thus far. That doesn't mean it can't one day be surpassed, but we might be getting into the realm of diminishing returns with a higher resolution format.

Movies are made in the digital realm these days.

When you go to a theater and watch a 35 mm print, it's a print of a DIGITAL SCAN. They scan at 2K and compose at 2K, usually. Then they take this 2K digital intermediate and put THAT to film.

For Blu-ray, they just encode the 2K digital intermediate directly. The best way to see a film these days is a direct representation of that DI. Putting that DI onto a film print just adds another layer of grain that isn't present in the digital master.

[saprano]

Motion flow buddy, turn it off. BD does look like film.

[Grubert]

Link

"Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it."

But there was enough aggro for everyone else - Adobe flash is too buggy for Apple to support it, and Google wants to kill the iPhone.

Priceless.

[P@t_Mtl]

Maybe he just doesn't like that he did not come up with the idea for Blu-ray?

[Joe Cain]

SO glad his position with Disney has no control over the home entertainment division.

[bhampton]

He's just nervous people won't like that new pad thingie.

I don't blame him, I would be a bit nervous about that too.

But... Doesn't matter what it is or what it does.. it will sell alot just cuz people like fresh apples.

-Brian

[Master Charles]

Steve....C'MON MAN!

The iPad was such a disappointment I don't even care anymore....until the next iPhone.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Lets just put it this way, Steve Jobs was an HD-DVD fanboy until it collapsed. He's just having a difficult time moving forward.

[Jim L]

Makes me want to dump my iMac for a Sony Vaio with Windows 7!

Thanks for the incentive, Steve.

[Al_The_Strange]

"Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it."

...uhhh, aren't BD sales already taking off really well?!

"As for Adobe, Jobs said they are lazy and Jobs blames Adobe for a buggy implementation of Flash on the Mac as one of the reasons they won't support it.

Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5."

This statements reminds me of an old saying I heard once; "a bad workman blames his tools."

And the last part reminds me of the time when Bill Gates claimed that all computers should only ever need to use something like 64 kb of memory. It sounds quite audacious to me, for Jobs to predict what web technology we're all going to be using in the future.

And one last gripe...what's with the i in front of everything?!

I hate Apple...

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

And one last gripe...what's with the i in front of everything?!

The I in front of everything stand's for Steve himself, as in "I am Steve Job and I know what is good and you do not"

[Uniquely]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I hate Apple...

Don't you mean iHate Apple?

[Red Leicester]

Glad to see I'm not alone in my feelings of animosity towards Mr. Jobs.

While yes, the reason he's dissing blu-ray is because he's trying to protect his precious iTunes, he seems to live in this delusional world where people want what he TELLS them to want.

Dear Steve Jobs...

I still love the iMac, but you're testing EVERYONE'S limits by not using blu-ray.
Calling it a fad is the same as calling DVD's a fad versus VHS.
You see where that led.

Your iTunes are also inferior to blu-ray...

They're not as high-def as blu-ray movies.
They take up enormous amounts of hard drive space.
If your computer crashes, you lose them. Period.

Me? I prefer to have hard copies of my movies in case of such a crash, as just happened a month ago with YOUR macbook.

I also prefer to have hard copies of music, documents, pictures, etc. Burning these things to blu-ray disks would be my method.

Also, you DARE try to say that blu-ray is a mess...

Your company was READY to adopt it in October, with the launch of the newly refreshed iMac, but at the LAST SECOND, you decided to pull it out, even though your iMac has every feature that would SUPPORT it.

Your iMac features...

- 16:9 aspect ratio, a.k.a. perfect widescreen.
- LED screen, energy efficient and vibrant colors.
- A screen large enough to watch high-def movies on.
- A screen that functions as a display monitor for other devices, not just for the computer itself.

In short, you make me sick.

HD-DVD lost the format war.
iTunes is just as "messy" and problematic as blu-ray, if not more so.
And now, instead of focusing on more important issues, you create a device rank with problems that's really just an oversized iPod Touch, a.k.a. the iPad.

Grow up, little boy. You can't have it your way all the time.

For two years, the people have spoken: we want Blu-Ray. iTunes isn't going to run Blu-Ray out of the market, no matter how loudly you sing "lalala" to yourself with your fingers in your ears. People will always want hard copies of their media.

Who better than Apple, king of sleek design and form+function?

Apparently not.

Apparently, Apple computers are now the N64's in an XBox360 and PS3 world.

[Red Leicester]

P.S.

You wanna call Adobe "lazy," Mr. Jobs?

You're "lazy" for not implementing Blu-Ray after it has so clearly won the format war.

Po folk like me can't afford HDTV's at the moment, so we need to double up on features... say... a computer that plays blu-ray movies.

Thanks for caring, Jobs. Thanks so much.

[hoogoosedmoose41]

Apple to me is like GM in the 80s... telling you what you want instead of giving you what you want. I like their operating system but thats about it.

[Red Leicester]

Originally Posted by hoogoosedmoose41

Apple to me is like GM in the 80s... telling you what you want instead of giving you what you want. I like their operating system but thats about it.

Thank you!
Not even a blu-ray OPTION!

Not even an option...

for shame...

[scanachick]

Dear Mr Jobs,

As much as I love Apple products, I promise not to buy a new macbook until you've installed a BD reader and writer in them

Regards, Scan

[uniquetreatone]

Originally Posted by scanachick

Dear Mr Jobs,

As much as I love Apple products, I promise not to buy a new macbook until you've installed a BD reader and writer in them

Regards, Scan

+1. There will not be another macbook pro enter my house until it can play BDs!

[Elandyll]

When you see that his latest creation is devoid of -any- physical port, and forces you to go through itunes, ibook and iwhatever to get content, it's no surprise.

He looks like a fool though, because Blu-Ray took off really well at the end of 09, and the policy to not offer even a simple USB port looks more like a missing needed function rather than a "feature" on his itampon.
I mean ipad

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by robinandtami

Don't you mean iHate Apple?

Oh yeah...