Sean Oneil
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[walter biscardi] “His link is for a burner. The $200 unit at NewEgg is a BluRay Player / DVD Burner. Not a BluRay burner. So no, that’s not a con artist. “
You’re right, my bad.
But they do falsely make it appear as though you need their’s for the new Mac Pro. That’s why I called it a con.
Sean
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That would be a con-artist trying to rip you off for $700. You can get Blu-ray drives at Newegg for $200.
Sean
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[Eric Faden] “When, however, I export to quicktime (or anything, for that matter), the image becomes very feathered”
How are you viewing the exports? Are you bringing them back into Final Cut or are you just watching in the Quicktime Player?
Sean
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[Mark David Spencer] “interlaced footage the same way I would on a tv? I need something that can help me see the field issues etc, that viewing on a tv will accomplish.”
What kind of issues are you talking about? You really can’t see fields on an interlaced display.
Sean
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“Maybe I’ll have to break down and watch the keynote as I must be missing something,
but…. didn’t Apple announce this – i-TV at last years’ keynote? The “new” thing is that 8 major studios have agreed to release movies for download from the i-tunes store.
“There is a new Apple TV (Take 2) that lets you buy/rent stuff without having to sync to a computer. The old one can now be updated, but I don’t know if it can do everything the new one can.
The studios have been offering these releases to Apple for years. The catch is that Apple would have to provide a rental service. Apple has refused to do this up until now. Thus, they are late in the game. Quite a few services and products just like this have been out for a while now.
Sean
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[Paul Dickin] “The new Apple TV (computer-independant broadband-connected) is going to lead somewhere new I would suspect.
Podcasts – SD or HD – and YouTube movies – now H.264 – direct to a TV near you with the computer switched off gives a whole new opportunity for video content to be delivered direct to a viewer.
For $229…. “This isn’t much of a new opportunity. Apple is very late in the game on this one. A lot of different companies are already providing this.
Sean
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[walter biscardi] “In fact, other to say you have it, why would want this at all? Don’t really need to repeat my blog entry here, but honestly, a regular MacBook and MacBook Pro make so much more sense both for the regular consumer and the Pro user.”
You’re right. Total waste of money. I was hoping they’d have a Macbook answer to the Asus EEE PC. A $300-400 laptop that fits in your jacket pocket. More useful than an $1800 laptop that fits in a manila envelope.
Sean
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[Zane Barker] “How can a computer that never existed run FCP? “
How can someone be so obnoxious? Sorry, I meant 12″ Powerbook G4. Please God, forgive me.
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The 13″ Powerbook G4 can run Final Cut.
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[Uli Plank] “A courageous collegue over here tested it today. It didn’t damage his computer, but it doesn’t work either. When you boot with the original card in the MacPro plus the X1900, the latter is not even seen by system profiler. If you try with only the X1900, the machine doesn’t boot.”
Don’t want to be sour grapes, but everyone should know that PCIe 2.0 cards & systems are forward and backward compatible. Intel, ATI, and Nvidia have designed these products to work with the older ones. The info is all over the internets. There’s no chance this would have damaged the card. That would be a crazy class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
So it looks like Apple is purposely blocking users from doing this. Clearly the new Mac Pro firmware is set not to recognize older cards. They could allow it if they wanted to. But they don’t. I guess it might make sense given their unique business model. But it also makes them assholes.