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I just got the new iMac G5 with the black trim or whatever and I wanted to know if its dvd player is also HD or Bluray? Someone told me that it was suppose to have one but I do not know. If someone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
 
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It is just DVD, no HD-DVD or blu-ray
 
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Both HD-DVD and BluRay are pretty much limited to standalone players for your living room and a very few number of computers (mostly Sony laptops) at the moment.

I don't even think these formats were in existence when the G5 iMac was in production.

You can't buy any Mac with a BluRay / HD-DVD drive at the moment. In the future though, my money is on BluRay winning and HD-DVD becoming the 21st century BetaMax.
 
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And it's not a G5 iMac you have if you bought it brand new. G5 is an older generation. If you have one with the glossy screen and it's not white, it's an Intel Mac.
Yea, no Macs come with HDDVD or Blu-ray. You can buy a Blu-ray drive for your Mac but they're around $800 or something.
 
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I just got the new iMac G5 with the black trim or whatever and I wanted to know if its dvd player is also HD or Bluray? Someone told me that it was suppose to have one but I do not know. If someone could help I would greatly appreciate it.

yea he said with the black trim so he means the new Intel Imac
 
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Both HD-DVD and BluRay are pretty much limited to standalone players for your living room and a very few number of computers (mostly Sony laptops) at the moment.

I don't even think these formats were in existence when the G5 iMac was in production.

You can't buy any Mac with a BluRay / HD-DVD drive at the moment. In the future though, my money is on BluRay winning and HD-DVD becoming the 21st century BetaMax.

Not to get off topic but BetaMax was a sony proprietary technology back in the day and it lost to the more widely adopted VHS format. Why do you think it would be any different today with HD-DVD being a standard that a lot of different manufacturers can support vs. another of Sony's proprietary hardware solutions? Once the price wars start on these things, HD-DVD will start to pull ahead and BluRay will take its place next to Sony's other great ideas, BetaMax, the Memory Stick and the minidisc.
 
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FYI, you can buy a mac with a Bluray drive. And that's a Mac Pro. Not sure if Apple offers it as build to order, but I'm pretty sure I've seen something somewhere about Bluray drives in a Mac pro. And even toast supports bluray burning.

However, you can't play any bluray or hd dvd movie yet cause there is no software support yet...
 
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Not to get off topic but BetaMax was a sony proprietary technology back in the day and it lost to the more widely adopted VHS format. Why do you think it would be any different today with HD-DVD being a standard that a lot of different manufacturers can support vs. another of Sony's proprietary hardware solutions? Once the price wars start on these things, HD-DVD will start to pull ahead and BluRay will take its place next to Sony's other great ideas, BetaMax, the Memory Stick and the minidisc.

The real reason VHS won was because of the pornography industry going towards VHS. Now these days thanks to free porn, and the pornography industry going in either format (though I've heard they hated HD), many production companies and studios are going with Blu-Ray. Toshiba is the only manufacturer that strictly makes HD-DVD players.
 
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Unless blu-ray starts getting cheap and in a hurry, i think HD-DVD is gonna take over here pretty soon. Picturewise, their both identical with a little more storage going to the blu-ray but at the expense of being more costly to manufacture. Paramount dropped blu-ray and went with HD-DVD not too long ago....and as long as blu-ray prices continue to be substantially higher, i think other companies will follow suit.
 
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Unless blu-ray starts getting cheap and in a hurry, i think HD-DVD is gonna take over here pretty soon. Picturewise, their both identical with a little more storage going to the blu-ray but at the expense of being more costly to manufacture. Paramount dropped blu-ray and went with HD-DVD not too long ago....and as long as blu-ray prices continue to be substantially higher, i think other companies will follow suit.

The cheapest HD-DVD player that can support 1080p, full HD, is around $400. The cheapest Blu-Ray player is around $500. Honestly; $100 more expensive, for a far wider selection, and bigger storage space is worth it.
 
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The cheapest HD-DVD player that can support 1080p, full HD, is around $400. The cheapest Blu-Ray player is around $500. Honestly; $100 more expensive, for a far wider selection, and bigger storage space is worth it.

Most HDtvs are not full 1080P, so that part doesnt matter to most. Blu-Ray discs cost more per disc than HD-DVD discs do.
 
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Most HDtvs are not full 1080P, so that part doesnt matter to most. Blu-Ray discs cost more per disc than HD-DVD discs do.

Although that may be true, many people are buying the 1080p HDTVs then ever before; I'm seeing a 2-to-1 ratio with my customers. Why should they purchase the crappy 720p player, when the TV they plan on getting in a year or so will support 1080p?

Also, by skimming through a lot of places that sell Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, they are relatively the same price (with Blu-Ray being the more expensive by a tad bit). You also have to see that the Blu-Ray disc can hold more information.
 
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Well, it doesn't matter to me, I don't watch movies anyway and the two or three that I do like look fine on a regular DVD. I am sitting this one out for a few more years...
 
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The thing is, there are much more HD DVD players than Blu ray players in the states. But when you add the 3 million PS3s that have been sold, the number tips towards one side....
 
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Not to get off topic but BetaMax was a sony proprietary technology back in the day and it lost to the more widely adopted VHS format. Why do you think it would be any different today with HD-DVD being a standard that a lot of different manufacturers can support vs. another of Sony's proprietary hardware solutions? Once the price wars start on these things, HD-DVD will start to pull ahead and BluRay will take its place next to Sony's other great ideas, BetaMax, the Memory Stick and the minidisc.

Well the VHS vs BetaMax war has little to do with today's situation, but the analogy can be drawn that some people spent a lot of money on what turned out to be the 'losing' format.

At the moment, Blu Ray has sold more units and has a foothold with the PlayStation 3, but then again the cheaper HD-DVD players could make a strong comeback at Christmas.
 
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The thing is, there are much more HD DVD players than Blu ray players in the states. But when you add the 3 million PS3s that have been sold, the number tips towards one side....


Now I am taking this WAY too far off topic haha, but on the flip side, the XBOX 360 has an HD-DVD player as an add on and we all know how many of those systems are out there. Of course, not every 360 owner has the add on HD-DVD drive, but if they had to choose between a stand alone blu-ray player and the add on HD-DVD drive, I think the choice would be clear.
 
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Yeah, but the PS3 sort of forces you to get the bluray even though its not really needed.
 
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So many people bought the PS3 because it played BlueRay and at a lot cheaper cost than stand alone home players. I think PS3 sales would've been worse otherwise. Its also bad for Sony because they don't know how well PS3 is doing because if they don't buy it for the games, then its purpose has not been accomplished.

Honestly I see HD-DVD winning over Blue-Ray, but then again, Sony owns so many motion picture companies now so the scale can tip either way.
 

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I don't think Sony is selling the P3 for the games, but for the blue ray DVD player. They know that they are taking a bit hit on this. I believe the first play station everyone was buying it for the DVD player.
 

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