(1) Suppose I was wanting to see if the movie studios were putting in subliminal "commercials" into the DVD. I doubt a diminished quality recording would be able to capture the necessary details
(2) Suppose I wanted to perform a critical analysis of the CGI/real actor interactions, interfaces, etc. in terms of the realism (or some other detail oriented analysis)
And no more feeling that you need to by Microsoft because they did Windows so their stuff must automatically be best, right? Don't laugh, that's a surprisingly common view amongst the less tech savvy.
I worked at a small scientific s/w development company for four years and when I started working there the company was evaluating a "standard" software development environment. The final decision came down to this reason. The final result of the "Microsoft made it, it must be better on Microsoft Windows" mentality was that we dropped Netscape for IE, Meeting Maker for Outlook, and MKS Source Integrity for Visual Source Safe (we already were using Office). The only non-MS product that we kept was Rational Rose since there were no comparable MS product.
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(2) Suppose I wanted to perform a critical analysis of the CGI/real actor interactions, interfaces, etc. in terms of the realism (or some other detail oriented analysis)
I worked at a small scientific s/w development company for four years and when I started working there the company was evaluating a "standard" software development environment. The final decision came down to this reason. The final result of the "Microsoft made it, it must be better on Microsoft Windows" mentality was that we dropped Netscape for IE, Meeting Maker for Outlook, and MKS Source Integrity for Visual Source Safe (we already were using Office). The only non-MS product that we kept was Rational Rose since there were no comparable MS product.