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No BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
by xubz 16y ago
No BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
- philthy 16y agoporn industry killed the bluray
- xuki 16y agoApple will never include a Bluray drive. Period.
- beaumartinez 16y agoWhy?
- xuki 16y agoApple won't add a new technology to a product for no reason. I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay. Moving forward, I hope Apple will get rid of the optical drive or offer an option to replace it with a 2nd HDD.
- jokermatt999 16y agoI can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay. For those of us without excellent internet connections, it's the only feasible way to get HD movies.
- xuki 16y agoOh, well. Maybe because I live in Singapore here where internet connection is damn fast I took it for granted.
- mmt 16y agoI suggest that you're therefore not a mainstream user. Obviously circular reasoning aside, the other feasible way is to spend more time on a slower internet connection. Under 24 hours on a 2Mb/s connection for 20GB isn't prohibitive, unless you're looking to stock your hard-disk for a trans-Pacific flight.
- xutopia 16y agoThey're betting big on downloadable content.
- dagw 16y agoSteve wants you get your movies from iTunes.
- rimantas 16y agoBecause it is "bag of hurt" © Jobs, and they are moving away from physical media anyway.
- cjeane 16y agoTwo reasons. Apple is deeply invested in physical media being a thing of the past, and they aren't going to sacrifice any of their profit margin to add hardware that is seen as unnecessary. I'll be very surprised if next year's MBP has an internal DVD drive at all.
- b3b0p 16y agoI honestly wish this were not the case. Nearly everything on iTunes seems more expensive than the Blu-ray version on day / week 1 release. To make it worse, the Blu-ray version will often come with the iTunes digital copy on a separate disk or with a code on the inside. I love movies, but I don't buy many DVD disks nor did I ever, at 480x720 it just seemed not worth it. Blu-ray though I find that I'm more willing to purchase with the greatly improved quality.
- smallegan 16y agoThey want to push everyone towards iTunes so they will continue to ignore bluray.