Scott Thomas
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In other news, Super 8mm is still out there…
https://www.kodak.com/us/en/consumer/products/super8/super8-camera/default.htm
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[Tim Wilson] “Believe me, Apple has noticed Spotify absolutely kicking Apple Music’s ass. But who do you think is going to be quicker to market with a speaker/mic music DJ request line thingy, though, a la Echo? Apple. Count on it. Apple Music doubling annual growth would allow it to at least keep pace with Spotify”
https://www.asymco.com/2017/12/14/the-sound-of-music/
By this chart from the Asymco article, you can see that Spotify has double the number of subscriptions, but look at that timeline. It took Spotify around 7 years to amass that many subs. Will Apple continue that trend?
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Apple has changed the Macintosh processor architecture twice before. I’ve stopped worrying about that.
The ARM processor was first developed for a desktop system by Acorn. ARM once stood for Acorn RISC Machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_ArchimedesI don’t think anyone would be surprised that Apple has probably has been doing ports of Mac OS to the ARM architecture probably for years now. I have no knowledge, but there is a precedent for this; The Macintosh Star Trek project in the early 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
Microsoft has done similar things. They’ve put the NT Kernel on about everything, ARM, Itanium, X86, PowerPC, etc.
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[Michael Gissing] “Interesting how the chart shows computer sales stopped falling and then rose briefly with the change to Intel chips before the iPhone & iPad started the next slide.
“The chart isn’t showing the rising or falling of sales. It’s showing the percentage of Apple’s revenue. Apple still makes a lot of money on Macs. The iPhone has just eclipsed the Mac on where the majority of the revenue come from. The Mac is still essential to iOS app creation.
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The DisplayPort stuff is multiplexed on top of the USB with custom silicon. I don’t think garden variety USB 3 chipsets are going to provide that support. I think the device would have to specifically say that that it’s Thunderbolt 3 and/or DisplayPort aware.
To get an idea of the complexities, check this out… ~/combining-usb-type-c-and-displayport-support-in-portable-implementations/
And in looking at the page and datasheet, there’s no mention of Thunderbolt 3 anywhere. That’s just DisplayPort and HDCP on top of USB3.
By trying to simplify everything down to one electrical connection, they’ve opened up a new can of worms.
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An option for keeping a coherent index of the volume may be NeoFinder. https://www.cdfinder.de
I use it for cataloging DVD and BluRay disks, but it can be used on mounted volumes. The database can be put on the network and everyone can read from it. I’ve not tried, but I think there may be utilities to reindex.
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Wow, I am just now re-reading this thread. So many bits of information I had forgotten.
One of the reasons the HP SAN wasn’t working was that the SFP fiber transceivers connected to the Brocade switch were not Brocade Certified to work with their switch. (No thank you’s for figuring that out)
The really sad thing is… (Bob, get a blanket or something…) We still have this thing. It’s still connected to two or three creative edit systems, and the rest of the business Intranet. Edit is old Mac Pros (2008-or-09-and-2013)
It’s way past EOL, but management hasn’t done anything about it. IT just does their best to keep it going.
The guy that foisted this upon us was kicked to the curb many years ago. I called him the soothsayer. He said all the things that management wanted to hear. He didn’t even understand how a video router worked or the chain of a signal path. He wasted so much money, it’s not even funny.
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David Sieg still maintains last known Scanimate at his shop: https://scanimate.com
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A-62 demo was always one of my favorites… I probably still have a VHS of it around. Can’t find a GVG Kaleidoscope demo though.
I do have this PBS TV show I put on YouTube with a different look at the tech of the era.
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I bought a QNAP TS-531X on sale a few months ago and attempted to set it up for my edit system. I went into it knowing it wasn’t the best choice. I bought it mainly to learn more about the QNAP produce range and to see if I could make it work for my needs. My take away is that my particular box doesn’t have the throughput to be a great for editing, but I see why Bob Zelin is raving about these things. The Thunderbolt box looks to have decent throughput. You say it’s for home, but didn’t say the purpose. You could probably run a couple of system off the one box I bet, as it’s probably much faster than the one I have.
My QNAP, while not super fast, is more reliable than the ESATA RAID 50 I attempted to build myself. ☺ My plan was this; If my QNAP box didn’t work for my projects, I would make it my home NAS on the network. I still may eventually do that, but I also now have more confidence in the QNAP product.
If I ever move to a Mac that has Thunderbolt, I would probably seriously look at something like the TS-453BT3.
