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Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

chillywilly — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:53:07 EST

It's a start. Now as the others have said, we need a slotload for the MacBook Pro. If this thing gets under $400 eventually, I might seriously consider doing the replacement.

chillywilly

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

andrewzela — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:21:18 EST

@TheSonOfKrypton:

I seriously doubt we'll see a Blu-ray or HD-DVD player in a Mac anytime soon. Optical media is dead to Apple - it's the old paradigm, and they make $0 from it.

They've made it very clear that they want you to buy (and now rent) movies directly from them, to store on your Mac's hard drive, sync to your iPod/iPhone, and stream to your AppleTV.

andrewzela

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

v12spd — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:15:26 EST

This is pretty much the only option I wanted from my Vaio TZ. Lets hope Sony gets on it and makes a new rev with Santa Rosa and Blu-Ray.

v12spd

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

RoCKSTaH53 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:40:50 EST

While it does seem timely for a Macbook revision, I doubt it. Like Buford said above, there is a slim chance Apple would use a non-slot load Blou-Ray drive for their Macbooks... not to mention that the big news is the Ultra Portable without an optical drive..

However, I would have to assume that the Mac Pro line is due for an update, and I would not be surprised if the new ones had some kind of Blu-Ray drive in it, as well as support for Blu-Ray in the upcoming 10.5.2 update due out "early next year." Let's hope they update the displays to match the new form factor.

RoCKSTaH53

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:25:25 EST

@Buford T. Justice: Apple's not the only vendor that uses slot loaders, so that's more than possible.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

Buford T. Justice — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:07:29 EST

Slight problem... NOT a slot-loader. Great for Sony and other slim-n-light vendors but doesn't do diddly for Apple. I'm sure they'll have a slotloading version soon.

Buford T. Justice

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

TheSonOfKrypton — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:35:09 EST

Can anyone say "thin enough for next revision of Macbook Pro" with me? Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

TheSonOfKrypton

Panasonic Announces World's Thinnest Internal Blu-ray Drive

designguybrown — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:24:46 EST

ahhhh... but do we have full blu-ray playback with 1080p and Profile v1.1 capabilities?... does any software out there have on-board blu-ray playback to Leopard?

designguybrown