The White Spaces Coalition consists of eight large technology companies that plan to deliver high speed broadband internet access beginning in February 2009 to United States consumers via existing 'white space' in unused television frequencies between 54-698 MHz (TV Channels 2-51). The coalition expects speeds of 10 Mbyte/s and above, and 50 to 100 Mbyte/s for white space short-range networking.[1] The group includes Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Intel, Philips, Earthlink, and Samsung Electro-Mechanics.

I suspect the problem of rural customers has been solved with the switch over to digitial television.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Spaces_Coalition

and yet blue-ray drivers have not made it out in any OS. or OS update, and from what I have seen and read, It is not happening anytime soon. If  blue ray does not show its head during the mac pro refresh this year do not expect it before 10.6 comes and even then its iffy. 

Even DVD isn't standard on some new computers.

Honestly, I think 2009 and 2010 will be the make-or-break years for Blu-Ray: either it'll catch on or it'll become the next Laserdisc. And to be perfectly frank, I think it will be the latter.

I think it will be in Snow Leopard.

all i can say is in the builds ive used it is not there, granted none are feature full yet and dont see that until developers convention this summer around that time you should see the mac pro refresh too (man i wish it was still called powermac... mac pro just dose not have the same ring too it )

Apple's totally dropping the ball missing out of BR.

well i will say that is very odd, and one reason I dont feel blueray is the next disc tech yet. Apple sits on the board and has since the start.  something is holding them back, and Im betting on the finalization of the spec which has not happened yet, which goes back to the complexity of licensing. Id tie this in with slow blueray read times something that needs to be fixed. 

Why would dev/beta builds (released) have bluray drivers if there aren't any bluray reader inluded in macs yet? (especially when steve jobs want to sell movies on iTunes)

I really would like to know what's wrong with all that "slow bluray read times"? If someone can explain me, cause I hear that here and there, but can't find any info.

the reason it would be in builds is for testing with those of us who have a blueray burner/reader, or need to service environments with it bug test/fix. you just dont role out a product with new fetures without testing it.

as for blueray read time. ill post on that after I get back from work.