Blu-ray Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Why I'm not excited about the new Apple TV

by Mel Martin (Sep 3rd, 2010)

I'll admit it. I'll buy almost anything Apple makes. I was going to hold out on the iPad, but after reading more about it, I wound up in line the first day it was for sale. As they say, resistance is futile. That's not the case with the Apple TV. When Apple brings a product out, I expect a small ...

Does the Apple TV need 1080p?

by Richard Gaywood (Aug 13th, 2010)

Engadget's tasty scoop on Wednesday suggests that the long-rumoured but still-mythical Apple TV hardware refresh would lack 1080p output. As is fairly routine now, weblogs, forums, and Twitter exploded with "ZOMG APPLE #FAIL" and similar thoughtful criticism. But assuming it's true, is this really ...

Is the Apple TV on life support?

by Mel Martin (May 13th, 2010)

It seems so. The Apple TV was announced with some fanfare in 2006, and it's been pretty much downhill since then. Sales have been sluggish and new features are coming out very slowly. As it is, the US$229.00 Apple TV allows you to buy Movies and TV shows through the iTunes Store, look at ...

James Cameron says watching films on an iPhone is "dumb"

by Chris Rawson (Mar 28th, 2010)

At a press conference where he spoke about the April release of the Blu-ray edition of his latest film, James Cameron said watching Avatar on the iPhone would be "dumb." More specifically he said, "I don't feel that I'm making movies for iPhones. If someone wants to watch it on an iPhone, I'm not ...

Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall meeting: Harsh words for Google, Adobe

by Chris Rawson (Jan 31st, 2010)

Steve Jobs recently held a Town Hall meeting for Apple employees, and according to Wired, he had some very choice words for both Google and Adobe. While these likely aren't direct, word-for-word quotes, as they come from employees who spoke to Wired and MacRumors on condition of anonymity, if ...

Beta beat: Backup your Blu-ray discs with MakeMKV

by Aron Trimble (Jan 20th, 2010)

You know that it's possible to backup your CDs with iTunes and your DVDs with Handbrake, but what about that new Blu-ray disc (BD) you just received during the holidays? Macworld has a good write-up of a beta utility called MakeMKV that will rip both DVDs and BDs to perfect quality MKV format. ...

SlipCover helps make case icons for your media

by Mike Schramm (Jan 18th, 2010)

Here's a cool app we haven't mentioned yet here on TUAW -- SlipCover is an app that will help you put together some beautiful icons for your Mac's media files, from DVDs to video games or anything else that needs a cool looking icon. The app itself revolves around "case" files, which are basically ...

Weekend news & rumor roundup, talkcast reminder

by Michael Rose (Aug 9th, 2009)

It was a surprisingly rumor-filled Saturday, as both AppleInsider and Boy Genius Report weighed in with hints of a future iMac revision and capabilities expected for iTunes 9. Aside from finally giving users the ability to manage iPhone application order on the desktop (thank goodness), the new ...

iTunes 8.2 to include Blu-ray support?

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2009)

Update: Our bad... the date on the MacRumors comment was in late April, and this recycled up into our queue due to an editing mixup. Apologies –Ed. There's a new iTunes beta version out in developers' hands straight from Apple, and a forum poster over at Mac Rumors found a little something ...

Second generation Blu-ray ships for Mac

by Mel Martin (Apr 9th, 2009)

MCE Technologies announced today that they are shipping their second generation Blu-ray drives for Macintosh computers. These drives, which come in both external housings and internal models for Mac Pro desktops start at $399US. They are the fastest and most comprehensive Blu-ray drives available ...

Roxio announces Toast 10 at MacWorld

by Mike Schramm (Jan 5th, 2009)

Toast is the granddaddy of CD burning apps nowadays, an act that itself has become relatively obsolete (between iPods, internet radios, FM tuners, and streaming services, do we even really need to put media on a physical format anymore?). Roxio isn't sitting back with their software, though: they've ...

Psystar offers Blu-ray option for Mac clones

by Robert Palmer (Oct 29th, 2008)

Macworld's Jim Dalrymple reports that Psystar, the makers of legally-contested Mac clones, are offering Blu-ray drives for its products. Two Blu-ray burners can be added to Psystar's Open and OpenPro line of computers, a $310 6x Blu-ray burner, and a $350 6x Blu-ray burner that includes a 16x ...

A big bag of Blu-Ray hurt for Apple

by Mike Schramm (Oct 15th, 2008)

Just the other day I was wondering on this very site just where Blu-Ray has been on Macs, and yesterday's big Apple event gave us the answer: Blu-Ray, according to Steve Jobs, is just "a big bag of hurt." Apple says they haven't settled on an HD format yet because no one else has either: "the ...

Rumor Roundup: Apple-branded HDTVs, Blu-Ray, more NVIDIA

by Michael Rose (Oct 12th, 2008)

The rumor mill is heating up this weekend in advance of Tuesday's press event, and one left-field rumor is coming from a familiar, yet unlikely source: Weblogs Inc./Mahalo founder and TUAW godfather Jason Calacanis, who dropped a mild bombshell in an interview with a CNET.uk blogger on Friday (yo, ...

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

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2008)

Danny Gorog at APC Magazine has written a really nice analysis of something that's rather strange when you think about it -- why aren't there any high definition DVD drives on Macs yet? It has been asked for by a few folks, but by and large, Apple has pretty much ignored the whole high definition ...