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The cabin doorbell from Next Generation makes a great "new text" sound.

I disagree. 5K isn't meant to give a few more useful pixels. I is meant so that manufacturers can brag about having "more than 4K", which happens to be the maximum available on common standard interfaces (ie HDMI 2.0).

What content is in 5K these days? Games, none. Video, none. There is barely any 4K content. What content is likely to be in the future at 5K? None because if the industry moves beyond 4K, it will mostly likely go to 8K. So Apple designed, made, and sold hardware for which there is no real content just for "bragging" rights.

Let's look at the history of Apple displays. They have been used in the video production industry for decades. Decades. For these users, Apple has been making displays slightly larger than the content like:
Apple Studio Display 17" (2001) with 1280x1024 when most screens were at 1024x768
Apple Cinema Display (1999-2013) with resolutions (1600 × 1024, 1920 × 1200,1680 × 1050 ,1920 × 1200, 2560 × 1600) increasing from larger than 720 to larger than 1080
Apple Thunderbolt Display (2011-now) (2560x1440) larger than 1080
iMac with Retina 5K Display (2015 - now) larger than 4K

But according to you, Apple spent decades designing, making, and selling all these non-standard displays for just bragging rights. All these more expensive displays were marketed and sold to professionals and not to consumers so that Apple could boast on having the most pixels.

I bet those editing on 5K display play videos in full screen anyways.

By that statement are you admitting that you don't know the industry or that you've never seen the interfaces of video editing software? The two biggest players are Adobe Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro. So when I say "That they can see a 4K video in full screen while editing it for example" I mean they are looking at a full 4K video and using the interface to edit it. Why would they run it at 5K when the content isn't in 5K when they are trying to also edit it?

So you're aware, Betamax was Sony's product. Regarding that format war, you may also be interested in this article. I see predictions related to porn and Blu-ray, but I don't think it'll matter as everyone I know who has a collection of porn (myself included) keeps it on a hard drive these days.

About two to 12 percent of the population can't see 3D, and I'm one of them. That's why we will probably never spend the extra money for a 3D TV.

Sorry, but speaker cables are almost never shielded. The capacitance of a shielded cable degrades the signal unacceptably over long cable runs.

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/format/compare/betamax-vhs.html

You appear to be right. I appreciate you pointing that out!
Thanks!

A "crossfade" or "wipe", is when the image of the next scene is "wiped" over the previous one, like somebody sliding one painting in front of another.

Wrong! A crossfade is not a wipe, it is a dissolve. Citation, with example video. If you've learned otherwise, I'd like to know where.

A lot of the reason that Betamax died was because the tapes couldn't hold full length films initially. Standard Beta tapes were 60 minutes, vs 3 hours for VHS. For the "technical superiority" of Beta, VHS was much superior in general usability for the vast majority of consumers. I mean, if you had the choice of recording only 60 minutes of HD, or 180 minutes of SD, which one would be more useful to you, as a person who watches movies, not as a technologist?

This is why there are guidelines on how to write a good news article. You use plain language, this is not some bit of fluff poetry. You write in an inverted pyramid, a person should get the most basic and central information first and in later paragraphs you can elaborate. You attempt to answer who, what, where, when, why, and how in the first paragraph or two.

If you take a look at this site you will see a very good article on how to properly report the news. It makes me sick when I read some of today's major news outlets who treat the news as some sort of art project rather than simply reporting the facts.

TBC == Time Base Correction/Corrector. They can fix sync width and levels, chroma phase, overall video timing, black levels and sometimes even more. Think of them as an all-round cleanup device for video. There is some discussion of this, plus this link, higher up in the thread. There are tons of them out there from el cheapo to thousands. The more switchable features, the better, generally speaking, and the more expensive.

My DAC-100 is by Datavideo. I bought mine here. It is a stand-alone box with composite, SVideo, analog audio, and firewire, with all of these both in, and out. For the digital audio that is on the firewire, there's a button to choose 12-bit or 16-bit encoding/decoding. There's an external power supply, a wall wart. It has LED indicators for analog audio bit depth, digital video, and analog video. It's got externally accessible dip switches that set NTSC/PAL, 0 IRE/7.5 IRE, and manual or auto mode. The DIP switches are generally set once and forget, everything else is automatic - just plug it in and it works. I am not aware that if handles SECAM. It's in a silver plastic case, is heavy enough to not be dragged around by its cables, and comes with no cables - you'll need to buy a firewire cable at the very least to go from it to the Mac, plus the appropriate video cables for your method of use - SVideo or composite (if you're using firewire, eg a digital camcorder, you can plug right into the Mac and you don't need the DV-100 - though it should be noted the DV-100 can make nice SVideo and composite out of DV.) You'll also need standard RCA audio cables for SVideo or composite use. I paid about $200 for it.

Why is an external time base corrector required when you are going to sample and process the signal anyway?

TBC's do a lot - you should read this short page, it is very concise and to the point.

The other two questions are not relevant because you were fed misinformation. You do want an SVHS deck, and you do want to use S-Video as the source if humanly possible. Composite video is more of a compromise than S-Video is. Keeping the chroma and luma separate resolve interference issues you have seen many times such as ties with stripes turning colors.

You know, things that anyone with an HDTV should already have and have used, and come with different DVD movies (Fight Club and The Incredibles are two off of the top of my head).

Yeah, it might have been nice to have thrown in there, but a design mistake? No.

You know, things that anyone with an HDTV should already have and have used, and come with different DVD movies (Fight Club and The Incredibles are two off of the top of my head).

Yeah, it might have been nice to have thrown in there, but a design mistake? No.

The linked article is not perfect, however. VHS is not yet obsolete. More reliable and cheaper DVD stand-alone console burners will make VHS obsolete soon, but they are "not there" yet.

Can no one answer the simple question of what constitutes a "journalist"?

Who knows. I've seen more informative comments in discussions on this site than I have from "journalists" in print publications and television. Some "journalists" manage to produce interviews using only one camera by filming a subject's replies, then filming themselves asking the questions all over again after the interview (known as noddies). I doubt "integrity" is part of the equation. Taking things like this into consideration, I don't see why bloggers can't be considered journalists.

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- It's free as in speech (GNU)

AND

It can be put into a screen on a server, you can detach, then simply ssh into the server from a different location and reconnect to your screen as though you never left. I do this all the time. ;) I have connections to all the major services, a slashdot RSS, and any other RSS feeds I find interesting on our shell server at our data center, and it never skips a beat.

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