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I don't see this spurring Apple to produce a superior time-bending platformer.

They should. The white chocolate mocha is very good! Broadband access is pretty bad nationally, I agree. I've got a decent 15+ Mbps down, but a pathetic 1 Mbps up. There's no real competition, so Roadrunner isn't rolling out DOCSIS 3.0 here. And we can't get FIOS because the...

They buy a $9 CD drive and get their music onto their computer. http://www.amazon.com/External-CD-ROM-CDROM-Drive-ASUS/dp/B001RKS7AC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1311797413&sr=1-1 Or they buy a Windows PC -- for which I bought an external floppy disk just two years ago because we...

Ok. I see your point. It would be difficult to get along without an optical drive and "no" internet access. I don't see this Apple sticking it to vendors. There is no "App Store or no store" problem, since there are plenty of other distribution methods (including Adobe's app store). The...

No difference in perspective. I'm not saying, "Let the eat Downloads!" I'm saying, there are plenty of other shopping options. And in fact, CS5 isn't available for download through Apple, so that's a non-issue. Lousy internet connection? Buy it from Amazon and have it two-day shipped...

Mac users are still welcome to buy software outside the App Store, be it Amazon, BestBuy, or indie-dev's website. As must still be done for Office, Adobe CS5, SuperDuper!, and other crucial software. The future might be, might hoped to be, App Store. But for the present, I think...

My wager is the percentage of Mac users who use their Mac with FrontRow as their sole "TV" is vanishingly small. But I doubt if either of us has data to resolve this :) (You're thinking of this: http://blog.hunch.com/?p=45344 )

Not having Front Row doesn't prevent you from watching video on the Mac. Nor does removing seem to give any motivation for people to buy an AppleTV: as you say this only affects that super-niche of small apartment dwellers who use an iMac for a "TV". They wouldn't own an AppleTV...

All those credit cards may be buying Angry Birds, not The Birds. Credit Card count is meaningless as a tally of iTunes market strength as a movie store.

Huh? That doesn't make any sense. What does # of credit cards have to do with how people watch movies on the living room TV? (Apple's got 2 cc #s from me and I've got 50 Blu-ray discs and no iTunes movies) Or, as I chronically ask, Who watches movies, HD or otherwise, on a 24" computer...

Singles.

But it's not what he said and not what he meant, but any straight reading of his words. His emphasis was on the complexity of licensing. And as Carlo and I said, that's belied by the Windows notebooks that do Blu-ray. Even my $90 living room Blu-ray player can do it. As Sam says, I think...

Yep. I agree with all that, particularly on the HD viewing side. And having read about Adobe's improvements on the PC side, I've talked with my wife about switching her work from Mac to PC. She's deeply in grained in her ways, so I don't see that happening, but I do think Apple faces...

Adequate essay. I've never understood "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. [...] but the licensing of the tech is so complex" when every two-bit $400 notebook maker seems to be able to navigate the licensing. I would agree that "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt because using the tech by consumers is so...

My hope is that TV sets start coming with digital copies too; like any Disney movies do. Ripping is very time consuming and generally a real nuisance; I wish I could get away from it. (And I own everything I rip.) But how else to affordably get content onto an iDevice?

At this point, I'd like a BR drive so I can rip my discs to my iPhone (and later, iPad). Because, like Matt, I'm not keen either on double-buying just for travel. For now, I have to specifically buy some shows on DVD for use at the gym or on travel.

Like I said, it's irrelevant. A person buys a movie, it's a blu-ray. They don't buy a blu-ray for home and then a DVD for travel. They've got Blu-rays and they'd like to watch them when traveling.

../../../../img/vbsmilies/htf/confused.gif That 2:30 battery life has got nothing to do with Blu-ray. It's an oversized PC with an undersized battery. If you buy that PC, you're not watching Blu-ray, DVDs, or any other movie in-flight. Even if you're watching a DVD, you're still "pushing" 2...

Does a Blu-ray drive use much more power than a DVD player? I doubt it. And laptops can easily watch a DVD or two on battery. And you can watch Blu-rays on 13" and 15" laptops too. The basic argument, which I appreciate, is: I bought my movie on Blu-ray, not DVD. But now I'm traveling and...

That's a cute ad; I liked it. But I wonder if "ooh, I can watch a movie on my laptop on the plane!" is going sell PCs much now that we're in the era of watching movies on iPhones and iPads on planes?

Matt, fascinating perspective and view to the future. (And sorry to hear about the your Reply-Box fiasco. The Reply Box has serious, long-standing problems. And while it's not especially known for eating entire posts, it's deeply frustrating when a good post, with real effort put into...

Did you read what I wrote? I don't defend it. It's a mess; I agree. But it's reality. So deal with it. And as such, as a consumer, I see nothing to Jobs' prohibition to it except for his ploy for online distribution. "Bag of hurt" is marketing deception; if you can get a Blu Ray player for...

I agree. And still I don't understand it. Because I don't see a Blu-ray player in a computer taking anything away from iTunes or AppleTV. Setting aside content-creators, speaking only of Blu-ray players, which are used to watch movies: Who gets a new Blu-ray and says, "I'm going to watch this on...

Yes, updates are fundamentally due to studios making life difficult on the end user in futile and misguided efforts to combat counterfeiting by organized crime. We didn't need firmware updates for a decade of DVDs. But here we are, needing a firmware upgrade every six months to watch Iron Man on...

60' of cable wound through the house for an hour might be easier than dealing with burning a magic CD. I had 25' running from office to living room, through the hallway, before I got the direct connection made. It's an easy temporary solution, if you have spare cable.

I avoided Blu-Ray until last Fall, in part because of the chronic reports of incompatibilities. What's wrong with these BR people, making it so difficult and annoying to watch new movies? Since then, I've had some scattered weirdnesses with the audio output on HDMI failing at times...still don't...

Please PM me. This is news to me.

I'm not opposed to BR on the Mac. But I think your goals represent a vanishing number of customers. Who says they wish they could watch their HD movies on the office computer through tinny laptop speakers instead of the big, living room TV with surround? How many people travel with a laptop...

Considering Apple and Blu Ray support, I hope they will support it for those that want it. There is a small contingent of pros and hobbyists that need or want it. But for myself, and by extension many others, Blu Ray in the computer is irrelevant. Movie watching is on the living room TV, not...