Re: Apple may introduce Blu-ray equipped Macs
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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The other thing is last i heard, Leopard didnt include HD DVD (or Bluray) support.
I dont remember if the codec list is identical or not but I know they definately dont hold any microsoft codec licenses....but its telling that a 3 month old OS doesn't support it when there are plenty of addon drives. There also havent been any OS seeds with any visible playback support for HD DVD or Bluray....
So...what good is it to include drives?
The only playback support they have is in DVD Studio for HD DVD discs authored within DVD Studio, which as someone else mentioned isnt full HD DVD spec.
HD playback is a huge feature normally Apple doesn't update OS features between major releases.
[Post edited by dguisinger on Jan 3, 2008]
I dont remember if the codec list is identical or not but I know they definately dont hold any microsoft codec licenses....but its telling that a 3 month old OS doesn't support it when there are plenty of addon drives. There also havent been any OS seeds with any visible playback support for HD DVD or Bluray....
So...what good is it to include drives?
The only playback support they have is in DVD Studio for HD DVD discs authored within DVD Studio, which as someone else mentioned isnt full HD DVD spec.
HD playback is a huge feature normally Apple doesn't update OS features between major releases.
[Post edited by dguisinger on Jan 3, 2008]
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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December 2007
December 2007
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The only playback support they have is in DVD Studio for HD DVD discs authorized within DVD Studio, which as someone else mentioned isnt full HD DVD spec.
This is kinda, true and false. HD DVDs that are made in DVD Studio Pro comply to the HD DVD spec and play fine in stand-alone players. I have made several HD screeners of short films recently using DVD Studio Pro which were shown in small theaters on an HD projector via an A3 player with no problems. DVD Studio Pro simply lacks the ability to create iHD content for these discs.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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November 2007
No, i ment that they don't support authoring or playing full spec, only partial.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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December 2007
December 2007
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No, i ment that they don't support authoring or playing full spec, only partial.
The HD DVD spec does not require discs to have iHD content, it's optional. Although all major releases seem to use iHD content so far.
HD DVD has different 'specs' like Blu-ray's 1.0 and 1.1, difference is that all of the specs were finished before the format was launched and all are required for players, however all are not required for authoring. DVD Studio Pro supports HD DVD 1.0 which has capabilities similar to regular DVD but with HD resolution and the newer compression codecs. iHD is in HD DVD 2.0 or something like that, I forget the actual version number.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Member since:
November 2007
November 2007
Yes, i totally understand this.....I was saying Apple hasn't developed a full playback engine...they dont have the HDi or all of the codecs. I know the discs they author will play in players, I'm saying it doesn't work the other way around at this time.
