Am I right in thinking that MS has officially supported HD DVD over Blu-ray? I'd particularly like Blu-ray to "win" if that were the case...

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Am I right in thinking that MS has officially supported HD DVD over Blu-ray? I'd particularly like Blu-ray to "win" if that were the case...

Yes, Microshaft has been supporting HD instead of Blu-ray. However, with the recent events, like Warner Bros, Lionsgate and a couple others jumping ship to BD exclusively, MS is being non-committal. One of the CES events was supposed to be a joint Toshiba/Microsoft HD-DVD presentation that was pulled at the last moment. Speculation is that MS is rethinking their position. MS has never been one to lead the industry from a technical innovation standpoint, but they've always been on track with big money. So it stands to reason that they'd back Blu-Ray once it starts to dominate (if it indeed does, and I hope so).

Big scary decision. Oh wait, it isn't. IT'S AN OPTICAL DRIVE, not a media commitment.

Last I heard those things slotted right in and out very easily, in units and product line-ups. Optical drive choices do not make or break computer companies.

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... anymore. It's been a long time since the fruity bunch at the Loop shoved CD burners into (rather expensive) iMacs at the turn of the century, only to apologise post-facto for being so short-sighted and forgetting to give iMovie a reason to exist.

OK, hands up who thinks either HD format will last as long as DVD... anyone?

"However, what Apple customers are really looking forward to is a Blu-ray burner. A standard DVD disc with 4.74 GB for backups is no longer satisfactory, and Blu-ray's 50 GB capacity is very compelling."

Yes, if you have the time to wait for it to burn. From what I've read, they're a bit slower to burn than DVD-R drives. It could easily take 1-2 hours to burn a Blu-Ray disk.

With LG's dual-drive dropping in price quickly (around $240), Apple would be smart to include both formats. My feeling is that the format war is not over - the dual players and drives are on the market and by end of 2008 will be in the hands of the general public at a very affordable price. No winners, no losers. Win win.

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Yes, if you have the time to wait for it to burn. From what I've read, they're a bit slower to burn than DVD-R drives. It could easily take 1-2 hours to burn a Blu-Ray disk.

So it takes little more time to burn 50GB than 4GB?! I don't see the problem.

Where I see the problem is that I got HD camera that shoots 1080p and with Apple I need to put that 480p DVD. I don't give a crap about playing BD movies with Mac, my PS3 does that just fine. I just want to take my holiday flicks and put on the disc and play them at my friends place. No way I am gona start uploading them to some server through some 2Mbps Internet connection and then download it on some other place.

Too bad Apple fails to keep up with the world. I would have liked stability and features of FCS over Adobe, but only SD support in FCS leaves no choice...