Rumor has it that Apple wants Blu-ray on its MacBook Pros since it's the winning format, yet there's this problem that Blue-ray eats all your battery life.
Blue-ray playback on a laptop turns out to be a huge concern because the laser used is a very high-powered one. On the other hand decoding all that data (25 GB per layer!) requires a lot of CPU work, which means a lot of battery power. Analysys point out that the first generation of Blu-ray-equipped laptops can't get more than halfway through a regular-length movie before juice runs out completely.
Source: Softpedia
03 March 2008
Apple notebooks with Blue-ray?
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I think most of those who want to playback a BD on a laptop would most likely like to connect it to an HD TV as well. And beside the HDTV there will be an electricity plug....
To me a DVD is good enough to play on a laptop screen - the benefits of BD coming thru a proper TV I think.
There will be always some guys of course who want to see HD on their mobile / ipod whatever......
If talking about movies - I absolutely agree. Not only a DVD quality is sufficient for laptop displays, what's more is that x264 codecs are becoming more popular and I've see BlueRay x264 rips that are no bigger than a DVD and also give you quality that populates all and every single pixel on a 1280 px wide screen.
However, the benefits of a BlueRay Disc come from its volume. You don't only use a BlueRay for movies (at least I wouldn't if I had one) - it's just a great amount of storage that may be more than lifesaving.
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