"Amid surprisingly little fanfare, Apple today updated their entire professional video lineup..."
I bet that if you had been in Las Vegas today, there would have been plenty of fanfare. The National Association of Broadcasters conference is currently underway there. It's a gigantic gathering of people in that business and I'm sure that's why Apple timed things the way they did...
I worked on a production requiring this kind of speed. However, we were using audio cassettes, and the material involved was a spoken presentation that we had permission to duplicate and sell.
This is how it worked: we created a master tape on the fly during the program. At the conclusion of the program, the master was carried down to a workroom with tape duplication machines. We could have 16 tapes created within 4 minutes of the end of the presentation--with more coming. If it was this simple with analog equipment, I'd imagine a digital method for distributing these recordings would be a piece of cake.
Am I missing something here? What the hell is wrong with using XWindows? I've used it for years and have absolutely no problem with it. It allows me a huge amount of flexibility, especially when compared with the display managers used by a certain other OS. Get a life.
Can anyone even proove if a CD copy was made from a stand alone CD-R vs one hooked up to a computer?
Technically, yes they can. A digital copy of a digital recording is going to have precisely the same pattern of 0's and 1's that the original did. This is in the same way that taking a tar file and digitally copying/burning it from one cd to another is going to produce an exact copy. An analog copy, on the other hand, will always produce a small amount of noise and other types of interference that could be noticed in a direct comparison.
So can it be tested when it was a digital copy? Yes
Unfortunately, the big companies see a huge opportunity to control distribution of digital content, something they were unable accomplish as effectivey back in the analog days.
What the hell? Somebody actually sits in a room somewhere and thinks this trash up?
This is like telling a college student that they can't use their TELEPHONE to call home since it isn't for specific educational purposes! This lady should get down off her soapbox and take a chill pill. I think by the time someone graduates from academy, they're well equipped to think for themselves. What a concept!
If she was in any way endowed with intelligence, she would realize that many students would go somewhere else rather than be subjected to something as lame as this.
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"Amid surprisingly little fanfare, Apple today updated their entire professional video lineup..."
I bet that if you had been in Las Vegas today, there would have been plenty of fanfare. The National Association of Broadcasters conference is currently underway there. It's a gigantic gathering of people in that business and I'm sure that's why Apple timed things the way they did...
I worked on a production requiring this kind of speed. However, we were using audio cassettes, and the material involved was a spoken presentation that we had permission to duplicate and sell.
This is how it worked: we created a master tape on the fly during the program. At the conclusion of the program, the master was carried down to a workroom with tape duplication machines. We could have 16 tapes created within 4 minutes of the end of the presentation--with more coming. If it was this simple with analog equipment, I'd imagine a digital method for distributing these recordings would be a piece of cake.
Am I missing something here? What the hell is wrong with using XWindows? I've used it for years and have absolutely no problem with it. It allows me a huge amount of flexibility, especially when compared with the display managers used by a certain other OS. Get a life.
Can anyone even proove if a CD copy was made from a stand alone CD-R vs one hooked up to a computer?
Technically, yes they can. A digital copy of a digital recording is going to have precisely the same pattern of 0's and 1's that the original did. This is in the same way that taking a tar file and digitally copying/burning it from one cd to another is going to produce an exact copy. An analog copy, on the other hand, will always produce a small amount of noise and other types of interference that could be noticed in a direct comparison.
So can it be tested when it was a digital copy? Yes
Unfortunately, the big companies see a huge opportunity to control distribution of digital content, something they were unable accomplish as effectivey back in the analog days.
--David
What the hell? Somebody actually sits in a room somewhere and thinks this trash up?
This is like telling a college student that they can't use their TELEPHONE to call home since it isn't for specific educational purposes! This lady should get down off her soapbox and take a chill pill. I think by the time someone graduates from academy, they're well equipped to think for themselves. What a concept!
If she was in any way endowed with intelligence, she would realize that many students would go somewhere else rather than be subjected to something as lame as this.
Get a grip.