Mac users with extensive libraries of DVD classics and music loving Mac fans with huge collections of CDs, some of which aren’t available online, will likely disagree.ĭVD sales still reached over a billion dollars in 2016. Sure, that’s down 20 percent on their peak at 2015, but those numbers still suggest a lot of people still use physical media. I guess it’s easy to argue that with so much media content streamed or purchased online these days, there’s less need for an optical drive than there once was. A few years later, Apple introduced Apple TV, a “DVD player for the 21 stCentury,” as Apple’s Steve Jobs termed it. Not so long ago in 2001 Apple launched an iMac with the slogan “Rip, mix, burn.” Those systems had two big claims to fame: iTunes and a CD-RW drive, as well as Internet access built inside.
And that’s bad news because it means an essential software component used by thousands of Mac users to watch video on their machines has no future. This modification failed to extend to 32-bit support. Click this, and you’ll see which apps don’t yet run that way.Īpple’s DVD Player is one of these 32-bit apps, even though notes around the software claim it was last modified in the most recent macOS release - despite the version number being unchanged since 2015. You can check which of your apps run in 32-bit in About This Mac>System Report>Applications where you’ll find a column called 64-bit.
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