Apple may introduce Blu-ray equipped Macs

And they also support HD DVD. (edit: At least with Software)

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[Post edited by Clinic on Jan 3, 2008]

Where have you seen that Apple supports HD DVD too? I thought they were only supporting Blu Ray so far. I hope you are right and they support both, a dual format drive would be nice!

Apple doesn't support HD DVD, just blu.

http://www.thelookandsoundofperfect.com/partners.html

That's not true. Apple has never supported HD DVD. They have been a BDA Board of Directors member from the beginning.

http://www.hddvdprg.com/eng/about/member.html

http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_information/Section-14009/Index.html

This doesn't mean Apple may not choose to include a duel format drive in their product line though.

i dont care about apple, but i read this not too long ago.

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However, Shaw does say that there's a small possibility of Apple picking a hybrid drive just to stay clear of the format wars. Rumors of the drives come alongside word of a major overhaul of the Mac Pro internals, so it seems like the timing is right, but we'll really never know until Steve takes the stage and starts clicking us through the keynote.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/03/apple-bringing-blu-ray-macs-to-macworld/

A few years ago Apple got burned when they supported cartridge-based DVD-RAM as an expensive addon, and 6 months later no body sold media....

Also, Apple is part of the DVD consortium, so its my understanding they have some support in HD DVD. They also fully supported HD DVD in their last DVD Studio edition but not Bluray if I recall (it was pretty funny seeing they were an advertised member of Bluray).

dguisinger, Sony is part of the DVD Consortium as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Studio_Pro

This is an apple product. It is support. They're riding the fence similar to most out there.

Sure Apple may be "supporting" both in DVD Studio, but it IS an obligation considering that the software is supposed to be multi-faceted for industry purposing. I would easily be more shocked if it didn't incorporate both. If it were a casual program, like iDVD, then I could understand excluding the new formats, but seeing as Apple MAY be including Blu-Ray drives now, I could see that changing swiftly.

I guess I'm one of few that's not terrified or in denial over this news. I don't post here (or anywhere) very much for a reason, anything and everything triggers a firestorm.

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Sure Apple may be "supporting" both in DVD Studio

They don't support both in DVD Studio. Only HD DVD. No Blu-ray support. And the HD DVD support is sans-iHD although there are rumors that will be added in the next version.

Apple is on both the HD DVD and Blu-ray boards and despite not being very vocal about support for either the rumor that Apple is about to release Blu-ray equipped Macs has been circulating since before Blu-ray hit the market. So have rumors of the same with HD DVD drives, options for both and even HD DVD/Blu-ray combo drives as a standard feature. Take this rumor with a grain of salt. Apple is about due to put a next-gen drive in their higher-end Macs but my money would be on the HD DVD or Blu-ray options or the combo drives if they can get the price down.

Also it remains to be seen if the drives packaged in the computer would burn HD DVD or Blu-ray media as well. I'm willing to bet that the plan is HD DVD/Blu-ray player - DVD CD burner combos in the lower end Macs and HD DVD/Blu-ray/DVD/CD burners in the higher end Macs when the prices are low enough.

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[Post edited by the_dvd_chef on Jan 3, 2008]