No Blu-ray on Macs... and no one cares

If you've only experienced High Def via Apple TV. Then you have not experienced High Def. Blu-ray is the only medium to get 1080p, besides a pc.

1900x1080 is not what iTunes offer. You need a drive & a HD display to see what BluRay is all about. True HD !

One thing no-one's mentioned yet is that Kevin Rose (founder of Digg) made several predictions about Apple's iPod lineup that turned out to be true. At the same time, he also predicted that 10.5.6 would feature Blu-ray support. Hopefully he's right.

"Apple has pretty much ignored the whole high definition debate"

I assume you are being sarcastic. What about the fact that they've moved their entire hardware lineup to widescreen HD displays, market HD content on the iTunes Store, and make this little thing called an AppleTV which can download and playback HD content?

Blu-ray will become more mainstream when the cost of blank media and burners drops.

Why spend $30 on a movie if you can't make a backup?

The stupidest article i have ever read on TUAW.

You guys should be ashamed, technology is supposed to move forward not backwards. Yeah lets have some bit starved 480p movies with shit audio.

Have you guys even watched a Blu-ray film with lossless audio?

Obviously not after reading this article.

Im no audiophile, but isn't vinyl better audio quality than 8-track or Cassette Tape?

I think given that question, a lot of people don't care about better quality. they care that a cassette tape is easier to take w/, better w/ bumps in the road. etc...

Many people in my community have SUVs w/ DVD players built in, TVs and DVD players in most rooms of their house. It not unusual to be on the freeway and see a 15" LCD w/ sponge bob or halo 3 through someones window.

I personally am tired of having 4 books of DVDs. Trying to navigate through 1000 dvd's to find what I want. I want to use spotlight or even alphabetically search by name in a folder.

Why is the Wii murdering the 360 in sales? Picture quality isn't better. Not everything comes down to picture quality.

It sucks that I have this magnificent 1920 x 1200 screen on my iMac, and no way to watch BDs on it.

Aaron:
The 17" MBP is available with a 1080 capable display.

It's a joke that Apple says anything about HD (iMovie HD, etc) when they don't do anything to support it. At a minimum, support burning to 3rd party players. I don't need them to include one but if I edit a movie in iMovie HD I should be able to burn a true HD movie. Ridiculous.