iTunes has NOTHING, ZERO to do with BD playback. It has everything to do with QuickTime, which is Apple's "OS" level platform for playing back various media types.
I think the "bag of hurt" comment was actually aimed at their programmers, most of whom were struggling to deal with the phone.
What I'm afraid they'll do is claim (falsely) they could ONLY support BD playback in QT X... meaning you'd have to ditch any machine that doesn't work with 10.6 for a machine that does.
"iTunes has NOTHING, ZERO to do with BD playback. It has everything to do with QuickTime, which is Apple's "OS" level platform for playing back various media types."
Now there's an excellent point that hasn't been discussed yet.
QuickTime is getting an update of somewhat sizable proportions soon with Snow Leopard, if I'm not mistaken. I wonder to what extent its gotta do with this.
I can see SL being required for BD playback IF it arrives based solely on the DRM requirements. I have a 23" Cinema Display which plays OTA HDTV beautifully, but I've realized for a while now that even if Macs got the hardware and software for BD movies that I wouldn't be able to use my Cinema Display because I'm 99.9% sure the DVI doesn't have HDCP baked in. I heard somewhere about DisplayPort and HDCP but haven't heard a solid 100% that it does include it (anyone remember the debacle with iTunes movies and VGA displays and projectors?). In order to give BD playback to Leopard users, that would require a substantial software update for DVD Player and then some other major update to make sure there's a "secure path" for the video. At least with SL, all that can be included already, so you plug in your own drive and it just works, no updates or patches to install first (isn't that why we got a Mac in the first place?)
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iTunes has NOTHING, ZERO to do with BD playback. It has everything to do with QuickTime, which is Apple's "OS" level platform for playing back various media types.
I think the "bag of hurt" comment was actually aimed at their programmers, most of whom were struggling to deal with the phone.
What I'm afraid they'll do is claim (falsely) they could ONLY support BD playback in QT X... meaning you'd have to ditch any machine that doesn't work with 10.6 for a machine that does.
riverside_guy @ Aug 9th 2009 1:40PM
"iTunes has NOTHING, ZERO to do with BD playback. It has everything to do with QuickTime, which is Apple's "OS" level platform for playing back various media types."
Now there's an excellent point that hasn't been discussed yet.
QuickTime is getting an update of somewhat sizable proportions soon with Snow Leopard, if I'm not mistaken. I wonder to what extent its gotta do with this.
I can see SL being required for BD playback IF it arrives based solely on the DRM requirements. I have a 23" Cinema Display which plays OTA HDTV beautifully, but I've realized for a while now that even if Macs got the hardware and software for BD movies that I wouldn't be able to use my Cinema Display because I'm 99.9% sure the DVI doesn't have HDCP baked in. I heard somewhere about DisplayPort and HDCP but haven't heard a solid 100% that it does include it (anyone remember the debacle with iTunes movies and VGA displays and projectors?). In order to give BD playback to Leopard users, that would require a substantial software update for DVD Player and then some other major update to make sure there's a "secure path" for the video. At least with SL, all that can be included already, so you plug in your own drive and it just works, no updates or patches to install first (isn't that why we got a Mac in the first place?)
Damn DRM, when will the movie studios learn?
-Brian