| Music - a commodity [message #62794] |
Tue, 10 January 2006 12:34  |
DC
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>>>>>>lucky, soooo............that leaves me a little short. Yeah, It would
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>>>>be
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>>>>>>nice, but it's not realistic. PT HD is st
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| Re: Music - a commodity (reply 1) [message #62935 is a reply to message #62928] |
Thu, 12 January 2006 06:55  |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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y it's more like, not every
drive
>> manufacture supports Apple. Thanks to third party software manufacture,
>> most drives are supported for the Mac.
>>
>> Remember Apple was the first computer company to offer DVD burners on
>> computers.
>> Prior to that a dvd burner cost $6,000.00, I know I was a computer dealer.
>> The first Apple machine was less that $2,500.00, that was a hell of a
deal
>> back then. They started off with the Pioneer super drive, it was the
only
>> one available at that time. Pioneer had years of experience starting
back
>> to the pioneer laser disc. A raw Pioneer drive was about a grand back
then.
>> With in 6 mo. they were about $700.00 and PC manufactures were getting
in
>> to the game. So my hats off to Apple for blazing that trail.
>>
>> What does suck is how Apple has locked us out with hardware profile.
This
>> is basically what you are saying. There are other options available on
the
>> DVD front. There are many things that suck about Apple and the MS way
they
>> have chosen to conduct business in the last four years. They have dropped
>> VST support in some of their audio products, they have no direct support
>> for Mpeg2 video in some of their video products. Mpeg2 is the industry
>> standard
>> in video (DVD). Yet they want to say they support open industry standards,
>> which is bullshit!
>>
>> With third party software you can do all the things you want to on a Mac,
>> but that cost more money. Apple's video software, you have to convert/encode
>> every thing to QuickTime, then edit your video, then encode back to to
MPEG2
>> to burn to DVD!!! Who in the hell has time for all that!!! Apples answer,
>> oh buy our new faster machine, it encodes faster. I say F*** encoding,
>> and F*** Apple!!! I went out and bough two cards for my PC and now I
can
>> encode in real time, and it cost me a total of $50.00 on sale!!! I no
longer
>> have to wait hours. So Apple has Mpeg4 in quickTime now, so what! DVD
>> and Mpeg2 are the standards not Mpeg 4, I can't rent an Mpeg4 disc and
play
>> it in any of my DVD players. I don't think they have gotten lazy, Apple
>> has just gotten greedy! They didn't want to pay Mpeg for Mpeg 2. It
cost
>> $20.00 just to get Mpeg2 player in QuickTime.
>>
>> It used to be that you could be running 8 year old software on your Mac.
>> It was an advantage over PCs in many cases. Now with OSX, Apple dumps
older
>> hardware support. They just dumped support for my iBook G3 which is about
>> 3.5 years old. So no more G3 support! They were still selling G3 models
>> 2.5 years ago. iLife 06, GarageBand 3 is no longer supported on G3 models,
>> they have locked us out with hardware profile. That sucks! The more
Apple
>> uses tactics like this the slower I and many other people will be to upgrade.
>>
>> I'm not totally happy with all of Apples decisions, so I can understand
your
>> frustration. Some of their decisions are just business decisions, and
I
>> under stand that too. Putting the above mentioned aside, I think Apple
is
>> a great company with great vision and great innovation. There audio support
>> in OSX is great, and AU rocks. The concept of one company designing the
>> hardware
>> and writing the OS and software to run on that hardware is good. It means
>> tighter integration and less problems for the end user. The trade off
is
>> less upgrade hardware options. Hopefully Apple will make good decisions
>> when it comes to OEM products.
>>
>> On the DVD burner, there may be some better choices, but I can tell you
that
>> Pioneer is a good solid choice.
>>
>> As for your mouse pad, well I can't comment, I use a Kensington track
ball;
>> )
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> Dedric Terry <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>> Hey James - it may have been Pioneer. Certainly nothing wrong with them,
>> or
>>> Plextor, Sony, Yamaha, HP, LaCie... But oddly enough Macs can sense what
>>> brand memory, DVD drive and probably IDE, power and USB cables, even
if
>> it
>>> isn't the best on the market, and lo and behold that's all they will
work
>>> with. IMHO, that's really lame. Worse than $399 desktop
>>> Dell-don't-try-to-add-a-PCI card lame.... ;-)
>>>
>>> I'm surprised our Belkin mouse pad works with it. Shocked actually.
I
>> feel
>>> lucky. Who would have thunk it. Maybe I'll play the lottery this week.
>>>
>>> Dedric
>>>
>>> On 1/28/06 8:47 PM, in article 43dc2cd4$1@linux, "James McCloskey"
>>> <excelsm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hey Dedric! I believe on the DVD drive, you need to go with Pioneer.
>> They
>>>> also used Sony in some of the G5s, but you would have to find out which
>> one
>>>> they used and go with the exact model. I do not believe they used Panasonic
>>>> DVDs in the G4 or G5, but anything is possible. I put a Pioneer in
my
>> dual
>>>> mirror G4, it works great!
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> Dedric Terry <dterry@keyofd.net> wrote:
>>>>> Rick,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like what we are seeing. I've posted on the Apple forum, but
>> not
>>>>> much help there yet - mostly people suggesting what I said in my posts
>> I
>>>> had
>>>>> already done.
>>>>>
>>>>> The picky Ram issue with Macs really irritates me - Mushkin is probably
>>>>> better than what they spec (although one user suggested crucial).
Also
>>>> our
>>>>> combo drive won't burn DVDs - just CDs. Apple says a replacement would
>>>> have
>>>>> to be a Panasonic. Why Panasonic? What about Plextor, etc? I also
>> found
>>>>> that our Mac couldn't support IDE cables longer than the 6" or so ones
>> that
>>>>> come with it (even high quality 10-12" cables). The only reason for
>> a Mac
>>>>> being so picky about part manufacturers (down to there being only one
>> in
>>>>> some cases) is poor design tolerances, period. They just tried to
cut
>>>>> corners and extend the profit margin by not designing a more robust
system
>>>>> with more power to the IDE busses, etc. Easier to pack it all in a
spiffy
>>>>> looking case if you get it working in one config and don't have to
worry
>>>>> about better ground planes, isolation, etc. Then it is all sold as
"this
>>>> is
>>>>> what is guaranteed to work" making customers think they are getting
a
>> highly
>>>>> spec'd system. BS. It's nothing but lazy design and lazy support
-
>> easier
>>>>> to say "buy one of these" than actually find a problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, $700 for a 2+ yr old motherboard that in the PC world would run
>> about
>>>>> $125. I'm considering building my wife (it's her G4) a dual core AMD
>> or
>>>>> Intel and just crossgrading our design software to PC. Probably less
>>>>> expensive than buying a new MacIntel.
>>
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| Re: Music - a commodity (reply 1) [message #62942 is a reply to message #62935] |
Thu, 12 January 2006 08:25 |
DC
Messages: 722
Registered: July 2005
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t's all about hype and marketing!
James
>"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>>Dimitrios,
>>
>>I'm curious to know if you have really used the newer generation of SE
tube
>>mics enought to know them well.
>>
>>I have a friend with at Telefunken branded U47 about 1 mile away. I do
not
>>have extensive *hands on* experience with this mic, as in using it myself
>on
>>my own projec
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