Aqua-Soft ForumsBlu-ray is a nice stepping stone. That's all. (500GB is a lot for a disk, though)
Snow Leopard speculation
You people think that the update will cost alot of money?
I mean they called snow leopard the next" major release"
Blu Ray support already exists in the current Leopard. However Im surprised the Mac Pro doesnt have the Build to Order option...so yeah its all hardware limitations. However, you can add on an external Blu Ray drive (USB or the like) and use it.
Im guessing Apple (like me) thinks that Blue Ray is a waste of time... waiting for the next medium to come to speed (flash drives/ solid state / online perhaps?)
I didn't knew that, thank you for the information!
So if I have an external Blu-Ray drive, how can I play movies with it? I don't think that Apple's DVD Player supports Blu-Rays, or does it? Is there any Blu-Ray software player out there?
I can't see how BluRay-media could be playing in real HD in an unmodified OS X-environment, as you need a layer of encryption, in order to be allowed to play the content you paid for. Apple had to add lots of intransparent DRM-layers into their OS, otherwise the content would be downsampled, so there's no reason to even buy Bluray media.
I wouldn't touch it, due to the encryption. If I bought something, I'd expect it to work, no matter the OS I am using. as long as the content industry doesn't understand their real customers needs, I say let 'em rot in their own little world until they come to a customer-friendly agreement. That includes no (unskippable) "copying is evil. you are evil"-spots and sueing people who downloaded a few movies.
Well... sorry for the OT, but you started it.
Please, delete this one. I accidentally posted twice.