[Kelly]

If you’re looking for a receiver that can take two serperate channels, have you looked at Zaxcom? They are completely digital and have features very slanted towards movie production, but they look like the ultimate to me right now. This receiver:

https://www.theultimatewireless.com/receivers.htm

accepts/outputs two channels (from a transmitter that transmits two channels). I doubt it would take two channels from seperate transmitters though (I imagine the single transmitter multiplexes the output of a mixer). Still, the system seems to be of very high quality. I’ve never used them, and I don’t know how much they cost.

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Good calls by Ty. The Sennheiser wireless seems to be the low-end favorite: tunable, solid cases, inexpensive. Here’s a nice little video about them:

https://www.dvcreators.net/products/sennheiser_wireless_movieframe.htm

I don’t like the Shure. It’s an older design. Noisy, the Knobs are always cracking on me, and I’m not impressed with the battery life (and the batteries become unseated easily. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to wedge a piece of cardboard under the battery door.) Also, if you look on Shure’s actual site, they have a re-branded Sound Devices mixer for sale!!

https://www.shure.com/mixers/models/fp24.asp

I think the story is that a couple of Shure engineers designed the fp24 on their own, and Shure didn’t want it, so they started Sound Devices (that’s only speculation though, I don’t know that for sure).

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Check this out for the switcher:
https://www.newtek.com/tricaster/

and this out for remote heads:
https://www.grizzlypro.com/home.htm

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

I’ve posted this other places, and only some of it applies, but I like the Cow and want to give my 2 cents.

The time to do this is now. Hardware sales will inevitably take a dip in the year ahead, but NOW Apple is insulated by having 6.5 billion dollars in the bank. And NOW, Apple is no longer solely a computer company. It has a second revenue stream with the iPod to hold them over. Plus it’s starting to make real money from iTMS sales as well. Apple folks are loyal (some would say to a fault). How successful do you think Microsoft would be if Longhorn wasn’t backwards compatible with XP? If they said, “Man were having all sorts of security problems, let’s just chuck our codebase and start from scratch with Longhorn”. They could never do that. But that’s what Apple did with OS X. And it worked because 1) they had OS 9 emulation and 2) because Apple folks are loyal. Microsoft folks are not that loyal. The hard transition for Apple has already taken place.

The computer is the operating system and software, not the CPU. I bought an iBook (500Mhz G3) when 10.1 came out. If it had been a choice between XP or OS 9, I would have gone Wintel. I chose Apple because it has the best Operating System, I couldn’t care less what CPU that OS is running on.

And on the topic of hardware sales, don’t worry about buying a G5 now. If you buy a new PowerMac tomorrow, it’s going to be supported until it’s not a viable computer anyway. Re-read that last sentence: by the time the next “killer app” comes out and you need new hardware to run it, you will have had to buy a new computer and programs anyway. If that’s 2 years from now, you’re still supported. If it’s 5 years from now, give your head a shake. Did you really think you were going to be wirelessly streaming 4D 16 Megapixel HD holography on your 5 year old machine? So you buy the new G86 Apple laptop (that runs for 8 hours on a charge) and keep your old G4 Mac mini for web-surfing (aaah the web. An OS that runs on any CPU. What a concept!). Most of the people on this forum can’t wait to buy a software upgrade anyways, to get the new cool features.

And once you have universal binaries up and running, who’s to say that you HAVE to discontinue PPC development. If IBM gets it’s “stuff” together, or has some incredible PPC breakthrough, Apple is ideally situated to move back or keep both.

That probably won’t happen though for the following reason (but it’s always nice to have a fall-back position). If you’re a new computer buyer in 2007, here’s two scenarios for you. SCENARIO #1: you buy an Apple/Intel. You get a well designed box, it’s got the most modern 64 bit OS out there (Leopard), it’s immune to viruses, and given that Apple designs some custom chips (they currently have have a much higher front side bus than any PC machine for instance) it may even be the fastest Intel machine you can buy. And then for another $200 dollars you can add Windows to that machine and dual-boot. SCENARIO #2: for about the same money you buy a Dell. Fairly shoddy, might have Longhorn but even if it does, backwards XP compatibility will probably mean it still has virus problems, may not be as fast as the Apple/Intel with custom hardware, and can’t dual-boot. Which are you going to buy? No contest.

And regarding the Cell, it was never envisioned as a main CPU anyway as I understand it. Perhaps Apple could use it as a sub-proccessor to do h.264 decoding?

To sum up: 2 year transition. Think about it. That’s only the timeframe back to Jaguar. That seems like Yesterday!! And in the mean time, no real downside other than somewhat slow machines compared to the competition. And we were going to have to live with those slow machines going forward if NONE OF THIS HAD HAPPENED!

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

They are all pretty old units, but occassionally there is the odd G5 at:

usedmac.ca

Also Vistek has a demo and used Mac section

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

http://www.hdforindies.com

Scroll down 4 or 5 headlines and he has a lengthy guide to the various loopholes with upgrading. Also a good resource in general.

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Thanks, I’ll tell him.

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Thanks for continuing to inquire! The short answer is I don’t know. I assumed that it only came with the PC version of the software, not the Mac version. The easy way to solve all this would be to just get him to plug it into the Mac and try it! I’m sorry, I thought this would just be an easy yes/no answer, not the 3 day deal it’s become. It’s not that important! Thanks again for trying, but I think we’ll just let it drop for now, and not keep bothering fine folks like yourself. Thanks again!

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Thanks for the response, but it doesn’t answer the question. As I said in the original message, I know there are cheaper, more obvious alternatives, but we’re trying to work with what he has in hand, which is an MBox. But thanks for at least trying to help, it’s sincerely appreciated.

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)

[Kelly]

Echo? Echo? Can any one answer this question?

TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)