{"id":2896,"date":"2008-10-16T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Bluray-For-Macs-A-Bag-of-Hurt"},"modified":"2008-10-16T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T23:53:00","slug":"blu-ray-for-macs-a-bag-of-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2896","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray For Macs: A Bag of Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Tuesday&#8217;s press conference where Steve Jobs announced the new MacBooks, Jobs assembled the press corps and fielded a few questions. When the topic came around to why Apple still doesn&#8217;t offer Blu-ray drives as an option for Mac, this was what he had to say:&#8221;BluRay is a bag of hurt&#8230; The licensing of the technology is so complex that we\u2019re just waiting until things settle down and waiting until BluRay really takes off in the marketplace before we burden our customers with the cost of the licensing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Tuesday&#8217;s press conference where Steve Jobs announced the new MacBooks, Jobs assembled the press corps and fielded a few questions. When the topic came around to why Apple still doesn&#8217;t offer Blu-ray drives as an option for Mac, this was what he had to say:&#8221;BluRay is a bag of hurt&#8230; The licensing of the technology is so complex that we\u2019re just waiting until things settle down and waiting until BluRay really takes off in the marketplace before we burden our customers with the cost of the licensing <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=2896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}