Comments on: Will Apple Ever Support Blu-ray?

By: Miguel Ibarra

Miguel Ibarra — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:12:23 +0000

Well, we currently shoot over 300 weddings and Sweet XV’s per year, and we’ve been delivering Blue ray disks since november 2009. Yes we paid 400+ Dll for a LAcie BD-R drive, and paid as much as 10 DLL per BD-R Media ( inkjet printable).

So if your are not using it profesionally its too bad, but I would not go back to a PC EVER….. I personally believe that if you go back to a PC, you have not embraced tha power and reliability of a MAC.

In my gear I have a 4 year old White Macbook ( Core Duo 1.8Ghz 2GB 60GB HDD and external RAID5 Subsystem for storage ). I can capture FULL HD video , edit it, compress and Build a Blue Ray image…………SO…….

If you use Mac profesionaly….
, stick with Final CuT pro, Encore CS5 and a Matrox Compress HD card. And you will be able to deliver a fully edited 2 Hour HD video in less than 8 hours. And customers will be thankfull.

By: Tejaswi

Tejaswi — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:47:14 +0000

I been using Final cut pro from couple of years as i been longly associated in Commercials. Currently planning to buy new corei7 Macbook pro 17″ but as there hasn’t been any updates in hardware like Blu-Ray,e-sata & USB 3.0.So, that’s the reason i’m stuck for buying the new Macbook Pro.

By: Dre

Dre — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:32:51 +0000

As far as Apple not including blu-ray in their MacBooks and MacBook pros... that I can understand. Watching a movie (regular DVD) on a MacBook already eats up your MacBook's battery, so just imagine how quickly your battery would be drained after playing a blu-ray DVD. You have two options: [1] sit with your white-hot MacBook on your lap while watching a blu-ray DVD, then recharge the battery, or [2] plug in the MacBook, and make it a desktop computer.

^^ Meanwhile, all the 2009 and 2010-model desktops are more than fast enough to play blu-ray, and they have ample room for a built-to-order blu-ray. Why make a Mac Pro and cinema display and not have blu-ray even there?

I'm with you folks. I'm likely to hold onto my precious 2004-model iMac until one comes out with blu-ray.

By: aibo33

aibo33 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:38:44 +0000

It´s time to wake up APPLE. You are makeing me by a PC !!!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:16:34 +0000

I was all set to but my first Macbook until I found out they don’t support blu-ray. I asked the smug salesperson at the “genius” bar why not and her reply was: “it is still untested technology.” Huh?

I won’t be purchasing a Macbook that’s for sure. Apple has made a huge mistake in my opinion.

By: David

David — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:08:56 +0000

There are BD drive options out there for the mac world and have been for a while now. Internal & external drives for both the Desktops & laptops are available. I’ve been told that VLC will achieve playback although I’m not totally sure about it. I know toast is able to play HD files, but I haven’t tried the disc from an external burner.

Jobs has been pushing for a discless society for sometime now & just keeps hanging on to that idea/goal. I think he’ll have to come around to at least adding internal drives to all the comps.

I’ve authored and burned a simple bluray on both my MacPro & MBP using an external burner & it worked just fine. I do want full support from apple though and hope that it comes soon.

By: Jorge L

Jorge L — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:00:38 +0000

Apple really burns me with their claims of “we support all the cutting edge technologies” yet my Macbook Pro doesn’t support Bluray and doesn’t support the use of SSDs natively. Come on Apple, you’re being left behind.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:58:14 +0000

A very well reasoned article. Apple really need to get their act together on Blu Ray now that HD-DVD is a redundant technology. The fact that they haven’t even incorporated Blu Ray playback into Snow Leopard, in the face of it steadily taking the place previously held by DVD in the household, is derisible in my opinion, particularly in light of the fact the fact of their input into Blu Ray at board level.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:50:41 +0000

I am furious at Apple for not supporting Blu Ray . I have a high end HD Camcorder & I am tired of family & friends asking me for the hd footage & I can’t give it to them. I have bought 3 Macs in the past & now I am forced to go buy a PC. I can’t even stream to an Apple TV in 1080p. I have waited for years.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:19:15 +0000

I was going to buy the iMac i7 until I realized Blu-Ray was not supported. And although I’m a video editor who works on a Mac every day, I will not buy another Mac until Blu-Ray is supported.
Apple needs to take a stance on this soon, they are alienating their Final Cut editors who have been a big share of their customer base traditionally. We want to be able to work in HD like we have worked in SD, ie with seamless integration across the board: capturing, editing and burning.
Apple risk giving the impression that they are more interested in gimmicks like phones and tablets, rather than providing practical work tools.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:20:54 +0000

I have owned PCs since my last Apple IIe, in the 80′s… As I was looking for an upgrade to an Intel i7 core (PC) for HD Video Editing, I came accross this new iMac and started to love it thanks to the various threads and reviews I read…. The only issue is clearly the Blu-Ray support…. it seems like a no-brainer to have this feature on any HD-capable machine, but for Apple, it seems that the marketing is winning the day, and they probably reserve the Blu-Ray capability to the next OS/iMac version so they can sell as many existing OS/iMac as possible and garantee upgrades to the next generations as well… It’s market share loss today to gain future growth, nice concept there.

My question is this: Can we still plug a Blu-Ray in the Firewire and burn a BD disc with Nero (for example) under the PC-mode (Bootcamp)?

By: somedud

somedud — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:45:48 +0000

Judging what I have used on bluray. I have used the data side 16 months pretty decent but slow. Just now are the bluray players and movies hitting the magic price points. $100 players or less and 19.99 for discs. The form factors on the blurays are just now getting the size Apple needs.

I think judging by Apple’s history they will come to it late with a polished implementation. For now I do my HD video all on Mac use Toast (not the greatest no iDVD I would say) and write the iso to pora drive and burn on my linux box. I do this with DVD anyway so no biggie.

But I would say to Apple don’t wait forever on this one.

By: jerry

jerry — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:01:28 +0000

I have purchased 2 windows laptops in the past year and will not buy another Apple until blu-ray is included.

By: somebody

somebody — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:57:08 +0000

With the price of the Blu ray media as high as it is today you better buy another 1 TByte HDD and forget about Sony PCs.

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:20:18 +0000

I am a heavy Mac user and a HiDef lover. It pains me that I cannot watch my BluRays on my home office computer. I run two 30″ screens and often play a dvd on one screen while working. I will not download movies for the same reason I don’t use iTunes to buy music… I don’t want to be tied to one file format. At least not as long as it is compressed to be ‘downloadable’.

I am not upgrading any part of my computer system until Apple adds BluRay support. Get on with it!

Tempted by Windows 7 now I have to say.

By: Jordan Schmidt

Jordan Schmidt — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:14:16 +0000

Without Blu- Ray it is impossible for me to ever consider buying another Apple Laptop.