Steve Jobs once said “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace”

Well that could all be about to change as Panasonic, Philips, and Sony have joined forces to create a new consolidated process for licensing the formats in Blu-ray Disc products.

In an announcement this week, the big three stated that they have joined with other Blu-ray patent holders to allow manufacturers to procure one license that covers all the necessary patents for Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and CD. This will be much simpler than the previous process which required separate licensees for CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

This could be great news for Apple Mac fans as maybe now Apple with reconsider Blu-Ray in the Macintosh.

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