New Macbook Pros to be “thin” ?

[Bill Davis]

Sheesh,
Just hand them a thumb drive with a QuickTime file.
In all likelihood, it will plug directly into the boardroom projector..
If not it will CERTAINLY plug into any laptop – which in turn can drive any boardroom projector on the planet via VGA.
That DVDs are not entirely dead yet just speeks to how technologically illiterate many companies are.

With it’s horrible MPEG2 encoding, DVD is about the last way I’d choose to show critical content if I had any other options. Who misses having to rely on arbitrary pre-set chapter marker jumps and using the “fast forward” and “rewind” controls instead of jumping to anywhere in the video stream with a mouse click?

DVD is the INERTIA format. The industry has moved WAY past that. Heck, load the clip on a freekin iPad for heavens sake. You can drive VGA from that. At least you’ll look like your in the current century in your clients eyes.

FWIW

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Conner

[Rafael Amador]

Heiiiiiiiii, just because some people have money to afford a better technology doesn’t means DVD is dead.
DVD was never intended for any professional use, but anyway, do you have a better format for my grandma buy her movies?
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Herb Sevush]

Oh it must be wonderful to be so powerful that you get to tell all your clients what the deliverables will be, no matter what the requirements are. Poor peon that I am, when my client asks for something, I actually give it to them – if they say tape, I give them tape, if they say DVD, I give them DVD (if they same jump, I give them the rope). I even have one regular broadcast client who insists on DVDs so he can review copies on his home TV because he doesn’t feel he gets a true representation of the way the shows “look” on a computer screen. It is terrible to have to work for such dolts, but then again I am not so powerful as I would like to be.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Paul Escamilla]

yeah, if i said “sorry, dvd’s are dead, you can’t have one”, i’d probably be fired.