Better support : Canon or Sony

[Darrin Cardani]

At 5:29 AM -0700 8/7/03, macsarecool at shaw.ca wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I am sort of thinking Canon is starting to support the Mac better. What
>do you people think? Sony's Mac support site is so pathetic. I think
>they are moving away from the Mac somewhat.

I will not buy anything Sony in the near future, not because of their 
Mac support, but because of their politics. They are also a movie 
company, in addition to selling the equipment that most of us watch 
movies on. So they build in hardware that won't work if it thinks 
you're trying to make an illegal copy of one of their movies. 
Case-in-point, I have a DVMC-DA2 converter to convert my old VHS and 
8mm video tapes to DV. If I pop in a video with Macrovision encoding, 
the unit will refuse to convert it to digital. Nevermind that I may 
actually own the copyright to said video. Nevermind that even if I 
don't, I may be making a legit backup of it. Etc. My time is too 
valuable to hassle with equipment that thinks it knows better than me 
what I'm allowed to do.

My Canon Elph S210 (still camera) has been absolutely wonderful to 
use. I can hook it directly to my TV to show the pictures that are on 
it, or I can hook it to my computer with no drivers installed and get 
the images. It takes standard compact flash memory, none of this 
proprietary memory stick BS that only works with their brand of 
equipment, like Sony does. And they don't make computers that compete 
with Apple's, so they have more incentive to make things work on the 
Mac. That's my 2 cents, anyway.

Darrin
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Video, Image and Audio Processing Development