Blu-Ray Coming to Apple Soon

[Gigacore]

Apple Insider has made the startling prediction that Apple plans to put Blu-ray drives into Macs. The company signed up for Blu-ray (http://www.macworld.com/article/43515/2005/03/bluray.html) almost three years ago, but we expect Apple was waiting for HD-DVD to finally die before committing to Hi-Def hardware. What is surprising in Apple Insider's report, though, is that Blu-ray almost made the cut into the latest revisions (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/apple-adds-mult.html) to the MacBook Pro:

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ray-tm.jpg


Apple had hoped to offer a Blu-ray option alongside its just-released Penryn-based MacBook Pros, but Sony has faced some quality issues pertaining to the slot-loading mechanism and laser in the SuperDrives. Apple was reportedly offered Blu-ray Combo drives in the meantime, which it turned down..

It could also have had something to do with battery life, which is something of an issue with the power-hungry optical drives (http://www.wired.com/gadgets/pcs/news/2008/02/bluray_power).

Source - Weird (http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/03/blu-ray-coming.html) :p

[PCWORM]

And finally HD-DVD is close to loosing the war against Blu-ray...
the only thing blu-ray has 2 cope with is the hefty price of the media and players..but this will change soon when more companies step into the Blu-ray bandwagon.

[goobimama]

^^ Uh....HD DVD has already lost the War. Toshiba conceded defeat in public.

[Voldy]

thanks for the news
i think they probably turn down that offer due to Blu-ray high energy consumption as u mentioned.

[Gigacore]

and just imagine Macbook Air with Blu-Ray :lol:

[Quiz_Master]

Source - Weird... LOL

Blue Ray Everywhere....
Now we know for sure that HD-DVD died in its childhood.... :D

[PCWORM]

^^ Uh....HD DVD has already lost the War. Toshiba conceded defeat in public.
yea..i kno that!

[aryayush]

Now we know for sure that HD-DVD died in its childhood.... :DDude, it's been known for the past two months. Wake up.