iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release Contains Obscure Reference to Blu-Ray?

[Entertainment72]

"MacRumors, via a user in their forums, is reporting that iTunes 8.2 could have some Blu-Ray functionality? Check out their post for details.
Steve Jobs famously called Blu-Ray licensing a “bag of hurt” when asked about it previously, but there’s been some chatter to suggest licensing has been somewhat de-hurt-bagged recently. Still, Apple hasn’t announced any first-party Blu-Ray hardware, so we’re not sure what to make of this at the moment.
In any event, unless they start including iPhone-friendly “digital copies” for transfer directly from the BD disks, it won’t change things for our mobile devices anyway."

[binarymelon]

Originally Posted by Entertainment72

"MacRumors, via a user in their forums, is reporting that iTunes 8.2 could have some Blu-Ray functionality? Check out their post for details.
Steve Jobs famously called Blu-Ray licensing a “bag of hurt” when asked about it previously, but there’s been some chatter to suggest licensing has been somewhat de-hurt-bagged recently. Still, Apple hasn’t announced any first-party Blu-Ray hardware, so we’re not sure what to make of this at the moment.
In any event, unless they start including iPhone-friendly “digital copies” for transfer directly from the BD disks, it won’t change things for our mobile devices anyway."

That's odd. Does iTunes even handle DVDs now? I wonder if they're planning on merging DVD Player and iTunes in Snow Leopard.

[Josh]

Gracenote is probably just upgrading their service to include Blu-ray disc info.

[xtop]

dont rumors belong in offtopic, not news?

and i dont see blu-ray coming to mac anytime soon

[Entertainment72]

More news on it, different source.

[owa]

If they are planning to support it, I wonder how they'll use blu-ray. Edit: That article (pc world) actually answers my question.