Friday iFAQ: Star Wars
Every Friday we publish a list of inFrequently Answered Questions and answers to help you, the Crazy Apple user, get more out of your Crazy Apple products.
This week, just to give ourselves something to do while we wait for Yoko Ono to kick the bucket Apple Corps1 to release Abby Road on iTunes, we thought we’d talk about the upcoming Blu-Ray release of Star Wars.
Q: Aaaaaw, are we really gonna do this?
A: What? Star Wars is a cultural touchstone and defined two whole generations of sci-fi fandom.
Q: Yeah yeah Jedis and Jar-Jar and stuff. But that’s not the point. It’s the whole Blu-Ray thing, isn’t it? That’s where this gets sticky from an OSX perspective.
A: It’s entirely possible that Steve will decide that the Blu-Ray bag doesn’t hurt all that bad!
Q: It’s more likely that he gets rid of SuperDrives altogether, and you know it. He wants all media to come down via iTunes, and you know it.
A: I was kinda hoping we’d be talking about hi-def wookies, you know…
Q: And Mos Def as Ford Prefect. Who cares about the content? The MEDIUM is the MESSAGE in this case. And Steve’s message is “you will use iTunes”
A: Some people still like content…
Q: Look, Han Shot First, Chewie will NEVER get a medal, and Hayden Christensen, who grows up to be James Earl Jones, is Mark Hamill‘s father. We got it. There aren’t any surprises here, just fodder for internet memes and T-Shirts.
A: I bought one of those T-Shirts!
Q: Welcome to the herd. The issue here is that Apple is like some kinda Empire, keeping us rebels from …
A: Running windows in bootcamp and buying a cheap little external blu-ray drive?
Q: Well, alright, I guess I could do that, but the point is that I shouldn’t have to! I mean, install Windows on my Mac mini?2 I’d–
A: –Sooner kiss a Wookie?
Q: Ugh. Fine, whatever.
A: That
Q: Can be arranged, yes. Got it.
A: he he he. Wookie kisser.
Q: Very professional. Look, all I’m saying is that Apple seems to be pushing their own agenda here instead actually serving the consumer
A: Okay, jokes aside, I just can’t agree. Network distribution is where it’s at and where it’s going. Both. Somehow. Blu-Ray is as dead as Jango Fett after Mace Windu lops his head off. Sure, his heart my beat a few more times, but we don’t need plastic to carry our bytes around any more.
Q: So, you’d rather download an 8 GB file than just go buy it at the store?
A: It’d take about as long to get it from iTunes as it would to get it from Amazon.com, so there’s no loss there. And then it’s also legally and automatically backed up in my Time Machine drive, and my Mozy online backup as well. Where’s the downside here?
Q: In the middle of the Death Star Throne room?
A: Word.
- More like “Apple Corpse” amirite? [↩]
- I’m totally running Windows 7 on my Mac mini. Stupid Grad School. [↩]
Ewok.
Let’s skip Blu-Ray and go straight to holodeck. On a Diet Smith Two-Way Wrist iPad. So I can play Halo 4 in real spacetime.
So, is blu-ray really all that? I still buy regular old DVDs.
J0n, J0n, where are you J0n? You were doing so well there for a while.
Sorry, I got busy. A crazy little thing called work.
I got a 50″ plasma HDTV almost 2 years ago, I don’t have Blu-Ray yet, and I don’t know why I would get it. “Regular old DVDs” look just fine.