Blu Ray and Apple

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by djluis2k6

So an Apple can't support a BD drive at all, not even an external drive? I'm considering purchasing the new 17" MacBook Pro, which supports 1080p.

The computer can support a BD drive just fine (in fact the new 17" can take a standard 12.5mm SATA slot-loading drive internally). There's just not currently an OS X playback solution available, so you have to use bootcamp and boot into Windows to playback Blu-ray movies. BD burning and data reading is supported within OS X.

As for Apple's "plans," anyone stating emphatically what Apple does or doesn't have planned is just guessing completely. Apple doesn't support Blu-ray currently, and won't up until the day they do. That day could come in 2 weeks, or not for another 2 years. What can be said is that discussions have taken place, work has been done, and at one point at least, they were fairly close on the hardware on software front. Licensing is another issue, though the new changes to Blu-ray licensing may be exactly what Apple was waiting on.

Originally Posted by Sir Terrence

He is not the main dude at either really. With Disney, he is on the board of Directors and that is about it. I am sure some people at Disney wish this were not true.

I think we may know the same people at Disney. We had a night-long drunken argument over exactly that when I was back out in LA a couple months ago.