Hey, Phil, I still want Blu-ray!

I just read on another mac blog that Phil Schiller says that Mac customers no longer want Blu-ray.
Phil, I'm here to tell you I've been a Mac loyalist since 1991. In our household we have 5 mac portables, two iMacs, three iPhones, two iPads, I'm not sure how many iPods, and three entertainment centers using Mac Mini's as HTPC's...
Let me be clear: I would still LOVE to have Blu-ray on my desktops! IMO, if people have stopped asking for it, it's because they know you've largely never listened to your customer base on this issue, so why continue to plead?
I know, Phil's not going to read this and answer, but I feel better now!
Still love my Apples, though!

I want Blu-ray drives too, but I know it will never happen.
I have an external BR-writer on my Mac Pro, but nothing on my mini.
I don't love my Apples much any more. I also use FCP (v.7), but that's been a sad story too....
No-one from Apple reads this stuff, so we're pi**ing the wind, really.

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In addition to a Blue Ray player you need HDMI out of your graphics card and and a monitor with HDMI input to view DRMed movie content.
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For the most part with majority of current and available PC monitors you would gain little benefit from the extra lines of pixels anyway .
THIS IS the hype around Hi-Def.
It really just allows you to maintain clarity at larger screen sizes.
Upto around 24" screen size there is virtually no noticeable viewing difference or benefit over std definition in Europe at least where std definition is 625 lines anyway.
The audio quality may be better and more expansive however again you need HARDWARE beyond your Mac or PC ! to gain the benefit.
Blue Ray discs are much harder to copy (allegedly) and anyway this would certainly reduce quality and is illegal in most jurisdictions !
Further it is a fact that that Apple are following a business model along with much of the Telcomms industry that see delivery of more and more Hi-Def and other content via on demand Satellite, ADSL+ and cable pipelines
Like it or not the 4 ½" silver/golden disc days are numbered.
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A client of mine wants their event shot in HD and final output as blu-ray.
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Hello and thanks for the quick replies and especially the welcome greetings.....
The images do match the resolution of the videos, they are all 1920x1080.
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I then tried to import these files into an Encore CS3 Blu-ray project. The video was at 0% progress when I decided to go out with the wife and kid for dinner. We did some shopping and returned 3 hours later. After all this time, the encode was still at 0%. CPU utilization was only 25% and not using all four of my cores.
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How long is this encode supposed to take?
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Hey, Phil, I still want Blu-ray!

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