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No Blu-Ray or HD DVD playback in Leopard?
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I thought earlier versions of Leopard supported high-def playback (particularly Blu-Ray) but now I can find no mention of any high def format in any of Apple's marketing materials.
Did Apple pull this, or was there no high def playback to begin with?
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Probably coming with the next Mac Pro update.
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um.... it was always there.... we just have not had the driver updates avalible....
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Originally Posted by beez1717 
um.... it was always there.... we just have not had the driver updates avalible....
It's not there for commercial discs yet because Apple wants to push online distribution first. It wants to be king of online movie purchasing through iTunes so has held back HD from being in Macs.
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It's also not there for DRM reasons. In order to get an AACS license for an official player, Apple would have to give us a M$ Vista, with everything locked down to prevent users from tampering with the kernel or any stage of the playback. Along with monitoring for tampering, driver registrations encouraged, and mandatory signing of kernel extensions with Apple in order for them to be loaded. Possible callback behavior to let Apple know if some Mac owner is trying to get into the system.
The open source playback utilities are getting close to HDDVD/BRD playback. Within another year, I expect we'll be able to play movies using Mplayer & VLC. Hopefully on less expensive drives, currently the cheapest high definition drive is the XBOX addon for $180 from Amazon.
I really hope Apple *didn't* obtain a license, lock everything down, and put official HD playback into Leopard.
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Hope not, either. I think it's a good sign that it's not discussed in Leopard. Apple is too pro-user friendly to encumber the OS like that, I think. If people want to play HD-DVDs they can get players. IMHO, both technologies will fail because of DRM.
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i agree
itunes downloads are obv. the future , and apple is poised - yet again - to own the market !!!
anyway an upscaled dvd is still pretty impressive imo
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mac 4 evaah
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Can always use Boot Camp with Power DVD until whenever.
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I still it's strange that Apple doesn't have commercial Blu-ray support. Aren't they on the support board of that format?
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Apple will support it when Macs ship with BD or HD drives. Be patient.
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For reference, a custom compile of Mplayer (on MacIntel) reportedly can play back some HiDef movies, though they have to be copied to your HD first - no playback directly from the drive.
If they really are this close, then it's only a matter of time until they work the kinks out and roll it into the official releases.
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