Nope, I won’t be talking about the “new” Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, or the 24 inch Apple display that were announced by a scarily thin Steve Jobs today.

(image to the left stolen from Gizmodo. Hello, Giz. Love ya!)

Go to Engadget or Gizmodo for your fix. Warning: nothing too exciting here, new MacBooks look more like cheap toys and are still overpriced for what they deliver.

New touchpad is gigantic and doesn’t have buttons. Displays are rediculously reflective to get any serious work done with your lights on. Moving on.

BLU-RAY

Of more importance is Mr Jobs’ revelation that Blu-ray’s licensing is causing a lot of headaches and it looks like Apple is going to wait for these things to sort themselves out before they put major support behind it.

Kudos to Apple on that – I shuddered when Blu-ray became the chosen format of choice of movie studios (and therefore killed of any hopes for the HD DVD format to take off) because of one thing: licensing issues.

My fellow editors will undoubtedly have noticed the problem: you could happily release HD DVDs without any major licensing fees but Blu-ray (Sony) won’t allow this: you gotta pay a lot to release your stuff on Blu-ray.

Blu-ray looks just fine, specs are decent and all that. But the fact that it takes major money to pay for licensing fees effectively killed of all hopes of smaller studios to push out high definition DVDs. Bad. Bad. Bad.