iTunes 8.2, now with Blu-ray?

Seth Weintraub
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April 28, 2009
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Yep, Apple fans, we now have a big old bag of hurt called Blu-ray in our iTunes.  iTunes 8.2 now comes with Gracenote support for BluRay according to the About screen.  Is this just a licensing update or does it mean there will be some sort of ripping support for video media in upcoming versions?

Compare with iTunes 8.1.1 screen below:

We caution you not to get too excited, DVD wasn't in the previous version either.  Perhaps we'll have an announcement at WWDC?

 Thanks Jim!

 

Comments (13)

powers | April 28, 2009 - 8:31pm

Oh-ho-hoh shit!

TheDisneyboy (not verified) | April 28, 2009 - 8:59pm

This is probably nothing more than GraceNote changing its Terms & Conditions slightly. At MOST...it's DVD playback through iTunes.

Annirowe (not verified) | April 28, 2009 - 9:09pm

iTunes to rip DVD's into its library for you???

or...

Front Row to be done away with in Snow Leopard and iTunes to take over as more a complete media player!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 28, 2009 - 10:09pm

I really hope we'll be able to rip DVDs and Blu-Ray like we can CDs. That would make my life complete. Really. No more HandBrake!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 4:45am

I would be thrilled if Apple now had Blu-Ray support, less for watching or ripping blu-ay discs (which would be nice, but not my focus) but for creating and burning Blu-rays.

I own a wedding video company, and I have been offering Blu-Ray discs as a final product to my client for two years. Unfortunately, we need to have a PC to create them because the support just isnt there for Apple. Its a shame and frankly, an embarrassment to be secretly using a cruddy PC for something our amazing Mac systems cannot due.

PeterZ (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 5:21am

How are people assuming that this means anything related to ripping DVDs? let alone BLU-RAY?!

Apple isn't suddenly going to join the pirate world.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 10:58am

Technically, if you are taking YOUR videos and putting it on YOUR computer it isn't joining the pirate world. Or does iTunes put all of your albums up for free p2p downloading every time you rip one of your CDs into iTunes?

TpaMac (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 6:29am

I took a look at the Gracenote page and this may just be Apple updating their license to include VideoID.

If Apple was going to introduce Blu Ray support I'm pretty sure we would have seen something at the OS level first. It really is a shame that Apple is dragging their feet on getting Blu Ray to the platform. I can understand why they would want to avoid Blu Ray for laptops (battery life) but there's really no reason that my $2400 Mac Pro can't playback Blu Ray movies and burn backups to discs. I know Apple talks about licensing fees but I think they could eat half of the licensing costs, pass half of them on and still have happy customers/profit margins.

Jasin Natael (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 7:53am

I would love to see GraceNote (well, *anybody*, really) get into the business of providing aftermarket subtitles for DVD and Blu-Ray. Seems like iTunes would be a good launching point for this.

jamesboner007 (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 6:07pm

If you need help getting your UDID activated on a developers account i found the website that i linked to my name above actually found them in facebook, just click on my name to go there. They had me up and running in no time and i now have complete access to their Apple developers account with my own user ID and password. It was worth it, just my 2 cents for anyone who is in the same boat i was.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | April 29, 2009 - 8:19pm

Watching Blu-ray movies on my mac would be nice. but I mainly want to burn Blu-ray discs. I have hundreds of HDV video tapes and I want to archive them on Blu-ray.

toke (not verified) | April 30, 2009 - 4:21am

There has been "Blue Laser" button here
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/dvdstudiopro/mastering.html
for about a year now,
so a word written somewhere doesn't have to mean that anything is happening any time soon...

question (not verified) | April 30, 2009 - 10:21am

my friend is a developer and sent me the itunes 8.2 file but when right when I'm about to open it read the details it says 8.1.1, I'm confused