It's definitely not a good idea! In the world of mid-budget and low-budget audio production, burned CDs are still sometimes the master media (not something I recommend, but something that sometimes saves the client money on CD manufacturing). I consider CD support, both reading and writing MANDATORY in an audio production environment. I assume Apple's operating system allows for USB-connected CD burners? BluRay will never establish a beach-head like DVD did. I doubt it will ever be a mass-media format. For TV video and more and more movie consumption, the world is already moving to lossy streaming and on-demand, for better or worse. For a movie "library," well that may be a quaint notion in a tiny niche market, assuming it's a big enough niche to keep a single BluRay line running (such as what happened to SACD). -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart Gooderman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:13 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Is it time to rethink FLAC ? > I’m as big an Apple bigot as they come (been using Apple products exclusively since the Apple //e) > and even I think this statement is a bit on the hyperbole side. > > I mean, Apple doesn’t even support Blu-Ray. Never has and probably never will. In fact, they are > essentially abandoning all optical media, which I don’t think is a good idea, frankly. > > DrG > >> On May 17, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Jamie Howarth <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Apple is the industry standard for audio and video. >> >> Please pardon the misspellings and occassional insane word substitution I'm on an iPhone >> >>> On May 17, 2015, at 8:28 PM, Michael Gillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Also, I see we have some serious windows defenders on this list. > >