Rumor: Blu-ray coming in September in iTunes 9
Adding yet another feature to Apple’s already absurdly bloated media jukebox, management, storefront and device manager application doesn’t strike me as reasonable, let alone a slam dunk. With Snow Leopard and QuickTime X arriving next month, why wouldn’t the mothership just add Blu-ray support to its simply reliable DVD Player or QuickTime Player?
Boy Genius Report, a publication that’s rumorologically correct more often than it’s not, reports that iTunes 9 will arrive in September with Blu-ray playback support baked in.
Moreover, whisperings that a major iMac revision is coming this Fall apparently are true and revised prosumer all-in-one desktops will purportedly arrive with Blu-ray players inside.
Further, BGR says that a rather vague rumor posits that iTunes will also include some unknown form of Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm integration. Thereupon, rumors of imminent social networking integration with OS X and various Apple software titles have come to nought in the past, I can’t imagine why they’ll come true now if for no other reason than social networking is still a profitless black hole.
Fat with a double side of bloat
Why stuff everything into iTunes which is already overburdened and bloated? I’m having a hard time with that notion, as well.
Maybe a committee of engineers pushed it through when Steve was out sick? Maybe it has something to do with the HD movie capable Mac touch (aka iPod touch on steroids) believed to be arriving sometime between September 1, 2009 and the end of March 2010, who knows?
Whatever the case, with Snow Leopard and QuickTime X, a major rewrite of the company’s OS-level media layer, arriving in September, there are plenty of reasonable and appropriate places for Apple to add Blu-ray support that don’t involve iTunes…
What’s your take?
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August 9th, 2009
OOhhh Blu-ray!!!
August 10th, 2009
When i start making little HTML programming is always bloated too is just easier to work like that. Blu-ray support is a major thumbs up.
August 13th, 2009
Still pretty expensive for those discs.