Why doesn't apple support blu ray playback?

[cheez]

Yea sure, and my 480p TV looks better than your 768p, because the pictures are insanely crisp and sharp

That is correct in some case. You aren't as newb as I thought.

The problem with many 768p displays today are notorios for soft playback.

Compare to what? a 480p display for viewing 480p contents? I don't have objection to that much... btw, it's "notorious" not "notorios". That looks funny... notorios.. what's that word?

That's why technology moved from 480p to 720p to 1080p, and now towards 4K displays. Because it progressively gets worse.

The question of 720p display being better than the 1080p display will depend on the TV, connection type, and tweaks used also. For viewing 1080 contents, it'll be pretty close. But the 1080p display today are still a bit soft... they must be using some sort of anti-aliasing technique in the display... Older displays don't have these stupid features built-in to it so it's better.

If you're not troll, by process of elimination you must be mentally challenged.

Neither. I'm not troll and not mentally challenged. I am the guy with reasons. Logical.

If you are telling me I'm mental because I mentioned about Hollywood movies being junk, well, they are junk. It's obvious. What's to brag about excessive violence and sexual contents? This is not pride guys. Also playing those shooting games in console and PC games are bad for you. You guys need to stop, turn around, and go back to rated G movies / dramas and play non-violent games.

And you seem to get so defensive on the HTPC for video and audio playback.... the real high-end systems are found in standalone equipments like the table top. You must play a lot of computer video games.. 1st person shooting game?


And that grkM3 guy must be using a $50 video card in his ghetto PC... You can't have good video quality with those cards. TV is one thing, but video card is another..


No one has yet to answer my question: "What if the user doesn't have internet CONNECTION??" It's so shame everybody is quiet about it and can't say a word.... You can't play Blu-ray movie when it prompts for updates. That's the biggest problem we face on planet earth today.

And you don't need updates every week. Once a decade is kind of acceptable. That's.... once every 10 years guys. 10 years. blu-ray has issues. I can play MPEG2 files in 0.3 sec. My PC maybe old, but is very fast......

And I am willing to bet that the reason why Apple decided to not to support blu-ray is due to the reasons I mentioned above, and compatibility issues and licensing issues. Considering blu-ray requires a billions of updates via internet Apple sees this as junk, not worth going though troubles.... If they support blu-ray it will cause whole slew of potential problems.... Apple is smart, like me.

 

[modestninja]

No one has yet to answer my question: "What if the user doesn't have internet CONNECTION??" It's so shame everybody is quiet about it and can't say a word.... You can't play Blu-ray movie when it prompts for updates. That's the biggest problem we face on planet earth today.

And you don't need updates every week. Once a decade is kind of acceptable. That's.... once every 10 years guys. 10 years. blu-ray has issues. I can play MPEG2 files in 0.3 sec. My PC maybe old, but is very fast......

Uhhhh, if you don't have an internet connection, you can't go out and download those MPEG2 files that you keep talking about... Also, in my experience it's only new movies or special features that will require updating your player/software so you'd still be able to watch you old content that worked.

 

[JimKiler]

That is correct in some case. You aren't as newb as I thought.

Compare to what? a 480p display for viewing 480p contents? I don't have objection to that much... btw, it's "notorious" not "notorios". That looks funny... notorios.. what's that word?


The question of 720p display being better than the 1080p display will depend on the TV, connection type, and tweaks used also. For viewing 1080 contents, it'll be pretty close. But the 1080p display today are still a bit soft... they must be using some sort of anti-aliasing technique in the display... Older displays don't have these stupid features built-in to it so it's better.


Neither. I'm not troll and not mentally challenged. I am the guy with reasons. Logical.

If you are telling me I'm mental because I mentioned about Hollywood movies being junk, well, they are junk. It's obvious. What's to brag about excessive violence and sexual contents? This is not pride guys. Also playing those shooting games in console and PC games are bad for you. You guys need to stop, turn around, and go back to rated G movies / dramas and play non-violent games.

And you seem to get so defensive on the HTPC for video and audio playback.... the real high-end systems are found in standalone equipments like the table top. You must play a lot of computer video games.. 1st person shooting game?


And that grkM3 guy must be using a $50 video card in his ghetto PC... You can't have good video quality with those cards. TV is one thing, but video card is another..


No one has yet to answer my question: "What if the user doesn't have internet CONNECTION??" It's so shame everybody is quiet about it and can't say a word.... You can't play Blu-ray movie when it prompts for updates. That's the biggest problem we face on planet earth today.

And you don't need updates every week. Once a decade is kind of acceptable. That's.... once every 10 years guys. 10 years. blu-ray has issues. I can play MPEG2 files in 0.3 sec. My PC maybe old, but is very fast......

And I am willing to bet that the reason why Apple decided to not to support blu-ray is due to the reasons I mentioned above, and compatibility issues and licensing issues. Considering blu-ray requires a billions of updates via internet Apple sees this as junk, not worth going though troubles.... If they support blu-ray it will cause whole slew of potential problems.... Apple is smart, like me.

The needing updates issue will be mute in a few years when we stream all our movies for those of us with internet connections. Plus no one is arguing with you since it is a negative but by now updates should be few and far between. DVD had issues with compatibility when it came out but there was no updates, you had to get your Samsung DVD player replaced when it happened.

 

[serpretetsky]

I said uncompressed, meaning no further compression done after the video was downloaded. I clearly explained this to you guys but you still didn't get it. It's like you only read what you want to read and not read the whole thing.... People jump into conclusion way too easily.

You can't just redefine a word. Every time you say uncompressed I cringe because all of your videos appear to be compressed. Why is it relevant that you have never compressed the video yourself?

The word becomes meaningless.

I have fully uncompressed 4k videos on my hard drive. You would think they look really nice, except i forgot to mention that they have been recompressed into a compression algorithm that is very lossy and was resized from 4k down to 240p. It's just that I didn't do any of that after i had downloaded the video, that was all done at the source.

So? it's still compressed and its 240p!