internal Laptop Blu-ray disk drive?

[hmurchison]

You asked in another thread where you had been misleading. I would suggest this is one place. You state "Apple has HD-DVD authoring tools." I have never seen nor heard of such tools. Also you imply Apple does not have Blu-ray authoring tools which it has explicitly stated it will support in both hardware and software (including APIs).

Thank you for asking for clarification.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/...ro/author.html

Look for this

With DVD Studio Pro 4, you can harness the power of H.264 — the new industry-standard, ultra-efficient video codec — to showcase and distribute HD content. Integrated and scalable H.264 encoding allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and media. Import native HDV content to HD on DVD with no recompression, even create HD DVD versions from existing SD projects.

Blue Ray authoring should come in the next version. Apple has yet to revise Finalc Cut Studio but I see that happening by summers end.

I have never seen any stand alone press releases from Apple claiming specific support for HD-DVD.

You have now

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005...7fcstudio.html

DVD Studio Pro 4, Final Cut Studio’s professional DVD authoring program, is the first commercially available DVD authoring software that lets users burn their HD projects to high definition DVDs based on the latest HD DVD specification. DVD Studio Pro 4 will be demonstrated at NAB with a prototype consumer [b]HD DVD player from Toshiba set to debut later this year[b]

I've added emphasis in bold.

or how about this one.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/apr/17hd.html

Apple is committed to both emerging high definition DVD standards—Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Apple is an active member of the DVD Forum which developed the HD DVD standard, and last month joined the Board of Directors of the Blu-ray Disc Association.


I think these more than back up my statements with credible links. Here's the summary:

1. Apple will support both Blu Ray and HD-DVD in some fashion.
2. My information is credible and again I've not tried to purposely deceive anyone.

I'm just a pain in the arse because I blow the whistle on incorrect info. I don't harbor any hatred for Sony or the fine people on these boards. We're all movie lovers first and foremost.