Pioneer To Release: Blu-ray Disc Combo Drive

In addition to its Blu-ray burners, Pioneer will release in Q2 2007 a Blu-ray disc combo drive, able to play BD media (HD video) and burn CDs and DVDs.
Such drive might easily find its way in computers, giving consumers the taste of HD video, leaving BD burners for high-end hardware models.
Apple might really well be using such product in a near future; however, Apple will have to update its iMac, notebook and displays models, as none of them is HDCP compatible today. Buying such a computer today will not allow you to benefit of full HD video features (1080) in the future, even if you installed such BD Combo drive, the DRM chips is missing. For the Mac Pro, one can imagine installing a HDCP-compatible graphic card to upgrade current models.