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| Re: Importing .wavs from a cd [message #62849 is a reply to message #62847] |
Wed, 11 January 2006 02:37   |
Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005
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> computers.
> Prior to that a dvd burner cost $6,000.00, I know I was a computer dealer.
> The first Apple machine was less that $2,500.00, that was a hell of a deal
> back then. They started off with the Pioneer super drive, it was the only
> one available at that time. Pioneer had years of experience starting back
> to the pioneer laser disc. A raw Pioneer drive was about a grand back then.
> With in 6 mo. they were about $700.00 and PC manufactures were getting in
> to the game. So my hats off to Apple for blazing that trail.
>
> What does suck is how Apple has locked us out with hardware profile. This
> is basically what you are saying. There are other options available on the
> DVD front. There are many things that suck about Apple and the MS way they
> have chosen to conduct business in the last four years. They have dropped
> VST support in some of their audio products, they have no direct support
> for Mpeg2 video in some of their video products. Mpeg2 is the industry
> standard
> in video (DVD). Yet they want to say they support open industry standards,
> which is bullshit!
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> With third party software you can do all the things you want to on a Mac,
> but that cost more money. Apple's video software, you have to convert/encode
> every thing to QuickTime, then edit your video, then encode back to to MPEG2
> to burn to DVD!!! Who in the hell has time for all that!!! Apples answer,
> oh buy our new faster machine, it encodes faster. I say F*** encoding,
> and F*** Apple!!! I went out and bough two cards for my PC and now I can
> encode in real time, and it cost me a total of $50.00 on sale!!! I no longer
> have to wait hours. So Apple has Mpeg4 in quickTime now, so what! DVD
> and Mpeg2 are the standards not Mpeg 4, I can't rent an Mpeg4 disc and play
> it in any of my DVD players. I don't think they have gotten lazy, Apple
> has just gotten greedy! They didn't want to pay Mpeg for Mpeg 2. It cost
> $20.00 just to get Mpeg2 player i
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