Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
Summary: In its latest Windows 7 commercial Microsoft takes a swipe at Apple's lack of support for Blu-ray ... but does anyone care?
In its latest Windows 7 commercial Microsoft takes a swipe at Apple's lack of support for Blu-ray ... but does anyone care?
Here's the commercial (via Winrumors):
Side note: Does the first few seconds of this ad remind anyone else of MST3K?
Really, Blu-ray support is the best Windows 7 feature that Microsoft could home in on ... something which, depending on the cost of the notebook, might not actually be present on YOUR Windows 7 notebook.
Oh, and Windows 7 doesn't support Blu-ray out of the box anyway ... it needs a third-party player.
If that's not enough, the fact is that people aren't all that worked up about Blu-ray anyway.
LAME.
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RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
They have no point really
so, let me get this straight
Irrelevant
Apologies to terry flores. Great minds think alike.
No BD for XBox 360
If M$ thinks that BD is so important, why is there no BD for their beloved XBox 360? I love BD and I now use an iMac, so I'd love it if Jobs changed his mind. Nonetheless, the "argument" of M$ is appallingly infantile.
Irrelevant.
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
Wrong. Optical backups will ALWAYS be viable, because they're much cheaper.
I was cheap to do backups on 3.5" floppies as well.
See how that turned out:P
Pagan jim
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
*sigh* It's like every time the discussion of optical media comes up, a short-sighted poster declares it dead. I really should just write this out and cut-and-paste it, but I'll stick to the bullet points:
-USB flash/spinning rust drives are *not*, in fact, less expensive than optical media. One might have a case with single blu-ray disks at a cost/GByte level when compared with an external drive, but DVD is about the lowest cost/GB storage medium around.
-Similarly, DVDs are priced low enough that they can be given away. HDDs/flash media don't yet cost a dime a pop yet.
-It's much easier to keep data read-only on optical media.
-Unless both ends have FiOS, more often than not it's quicker to hand over a disc. In some cases, it's even faster to mail it out.
-duplication is usually quicker and scales better.
-while many set-top devices speak USB, that's the easy part. Do they speak MPEG 1/2/4? Divx/XviD? AVCHD? WMV? What resolutions, frame rates, and audio codecs? DVD and Blu-Ray are standards that guarantee that a correctly burnt disc will play anywhere. USB connections offer no similar guarantee.
Why floppy failed:
-High failure rate for no reason.
-Files quickly outgrew the floppy disk - simple Word and Excel documents still fit, but photos no longer do.
-extremely slow transfer rates.
-drives in laptops were large and took up lots of space.
In summary, USB is great, but comparing the demise of the floppy disk to the "imminent demise" of optical media is disingenuous. If you doubt this, live somewhere that 80KBytes/sec with an uptime of 60% is what passes for broadband, and you may yet change your tune comparing optical media to floppy disks.
Joey
@joey
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
Write-once DVD media is generally $20 for 470GB worth of single-layer discs or $30 for 425GB worth of dual-layer discs, while write-once blu-ray is still averaging around a $1.10 for 25GB discs and $3 for 50GB discs. Re-writable media is always more expensive, but has a limited number of re-writes before it needs to be replaced.
On the other hand, I can get a 1TB hard drive for $55, 1.5TB for $80, and 2TB for $100, and I can write on that drive thousands, and potentially millions of times before it fails.
While it might cost a couple more dollars initially, the return on investment is the fact that backups are completed much faster than they would be with optical media and I don't have to replace the mechanisms as often as I would the optical media. While I'll agree that your argument was valid at one point, it's now a draw and in two years will be no longer valid as rotational hard drive prices continue to free-fall.
@Voyager
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
Hmmm Media Production Company you say? Isn't that in the category of things Apple computers are supposed to be better with?
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
I simply screen the project with the client, or online, and then off goes the master on a drive or multi-dvd's to the duplicator.
I'm in the business of media production, not media duplication, but I can see where some in the industry might possibly have use.
I just wouldn't dream of offering a client lots of hand-duplicated HD discs, and in the instances where I am handing over discs then the client always needs DVD and NOT Blu-Ray. Those are times like corporate training videos and such, where the important issue is ubiquitous playback, and that always = DVD, not BD, because there is much more proliferation of DVD players than BD players and I have a feeling it's always going to be that way until distribution is entirely via network.
The only possible use for a Blu-Ray burner in my scheme would be for archiving, and I simply prefer network archives.
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray
YA who cares about the consumers that although i wouldn't do it, actually watch blu-ray movies on a PC. God forbid they make customers Happy
I would think that their Apple sales over the past few
years would indicate happy customers. I would say that the numerous consumer satisfaction statistics also show a wealth of happy Apple customers. Further more I would think that the fact that Apple Customers are famous for their loyalty to Apple is another sign of happy Apple customers. Wouldn't you?
Pagan jim
Except
I don't work with Apple computers....I assume in a Pro workstation you could add one yourself. You could also buy an external for your MacBook. But Apple refuses to offer Blu out of the box.
Not that I particularly care...I don't even have a Blu player in my A/V rack. But that's what Microsoft is harping on.
But Microsoft doesn't make computers, so the original
RE: Microsoft takes swipe at Mac for not supporting Blu-ray