Apple Bans Blu-ray From Macs.

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Apple will never let you watch Blu-ray movies on your Mac, because discs are "holding us back". Apple has revealed the reasons the new MacBook Pro with retina display and the new super-slim iMac ditch disc drives altogether, and it's bad news for Blu-ray.

Apple marketing mouthpiece Phil Schiller told Time Blu-ray comes with "issues unrelated to the actual quality of the movie that make a complex and not-great technology".

"These old technologies are holding us back," he adds. "They're anchors on where we want to go."

Apple bans Blu-ray from Macs: Discs are 'holding us back' | CNET UK

[Doctor_Death]

Let's ban Apple instead lol

[realneil]

Let's Ban Banning,............

Apple's lack of support for technologies they don't want to buy a licence for, and Microsoft's trying to cram Metro down our thoats, (even after a huge public backlash about it) is more of the Same Old Sh*t.

[PoLoMoTo]

Linux!

[realneil]

If Linux could game as well as my Win-7 boxes do, I would have switched long ago.
As it is, I have a version of Linux (Zorin OS) on two PCs already and I like it alot.

[PoLoMoTo]

If Linux could game as well as my Win-7 boxes do, I would have switched long ago.
As it is, I have a version of Linux (Zorin OS) on two PCs already and I like it alot.

Yea, I hate zorin, can't get it to work at all. I just gave up on linux and went back to windows.

[realneil]

If Zorin isn't working for you, try Linux Mint.
Anyone can run that. Heck, I had it working on two tin cans with a string stretched between them,......

[PoLoMoTo]

If Zorin isn't working for you, try Linux Mint.
Anyone can run that. Heck, I had it working on two tin cans with a string stretched between them,......

I have ubuntu working ok ish, still have to log out and back in to get the mouse to work although I haven't tried 12.10 yet.

[realneil]

Try Mint

[PoLoMoTo]

Try Mint

Fine, I want to check out freebsd first though

[PoLoMoTo]

Mint's servers also appear to be down

[Steve]

For me, it's just another reason (among many) why I will continue to "never" own an Apple product.

[MattyMatt]

While I do not agree with the ban, he is right.... "Apple marketing mouthpiece Phil Schiller told Time Blu-ray comes with "issues unrelated to the actual quality of the movie that make a complex and not-great technology"."

[TeeBlack]

Let's ban Apple instead lol

I agree!

[TeeBlack]

I have ubuntu working ok ish, still have to log out and back in to get the mouse to work although I haven't tried 12.10 yet.

i use to dual boot with Ubuntu. its pretty cool but decided to stick with W7.

[Doctor_Death]

Yeah, Win 7 has been the best OS yet from MS, they should have kept improving it, instead of coming out with Win 8 which a lot of people hate