If you can watch Blu-ray movies on Linux, you can watch them on Mac OS X, you just need to install VLC, be able to read UDF 2.5, and have the right keys.
Jobs was making a (very valid) point that there is no one-stop-shopping for Blu-ray licenses like there is with DVD, making it (1) expensive and (2) difficult to license the technology.
One small problem. If Apple bundles VLC with Mac OS X together with a KEYDB.cfg file they regularly update, then Steve Jobs is looking at about four years in prison for violating the circumvention provisions of the DMCA. And with his health being what it is, I'm not sure he'd survive it.
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burndive @ Oct 16th 2008 8:11PM
If you can watch Blu-ray movies on Linux, you can watch them on Mac OS X, you just need to install VLC, be able to read UDF 2.5, and have the right keys.
Jobs was making a (very valid) point that there is no one-stop-shopping for Blu-ray licenses like there is with DVD, making it (1) expensive and (2) difficult to license the technology.
shawnmos @ Oct 16th 2008 10:46PM
That still won't work with the movies with BD+.
squiggleslash @ Oct 17th 2008 9:03AM
One small problem. If Apple bundles VLC with Mac OS X together with a KEYDB.cfg file they regularly update, then Steve Jobs is looking at about four years in prison for violating the circumvention provisions of the DMCA. And with his health being what it is, I'm not sure he'd survive it.