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I was looking into buying one of these last month, but they never upgraded them to have Blu-Ray compatibility. Steve Jobs apparently hated BluRay and refused to
by segasaturn 2y ago
I was looking into buying one of these last month, but they never upgraded them to have Blu-Ray compatibility. Steve Jobs apparently hated BluRay and refused to support it natively on MacOS and it's still quite painful to get it working on macOS today. You can get a Buffalo BDXL drive for about the same price as Apple's DVD-only SuperDrive.
- BoredPositron 2y agoBluray is pretty much plug and play even writing data with on board tools. There is no native video playback but VLC does it without problems. I wouldn’t call it not supported…
- LexGray 2y agoI seem to recall the original issue with supporting Blu-ray is that Sony required a root-kit to verify playback authorization and was monitoring everything for pirated content. There were some expensive playback software licensing issues too. It is one reason even consoles were hesitant to adopt it.
- twoodfin 2y agoAs I recall, Jobs hated the Blu-ray software stack, which included mandatory use of a JVM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J “Big bag of hurt” was the expression, IIRC.