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Friday, October 17, 2008

Blur-ray Recorder, End of Firewire

Apple may not be keen on Blu-ray, but Amex Corporation has announced the Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive, a very sleek and sexy external Blu-ray player and reader. It supports both OSX and Windows XP, though note that the Mac OS doesn’t support Blu-ray playback, so the usefulness of the player-only version is rather limited.


The BDP-2 Blu-ray Player US$289.00
The BDR-2 Blu-ray Recorder US$389.00

An Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GF8000 Series or better is required. The text at the top says “New MacBook, Pro and Air.

Get this with Toast, and you’d be able to make Blu-ray discs.

Firewire
Meanwhile, Steve Jobs has reportedly responded to a query about why the new MacBooks don’t have Firewire:
Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.

It’s a good point. While HDV tape-based cameras require Firewire to transfer video, all the harddrive and chip-based cameras work with USB (as I’ve found with my new camera.)

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