[MacDV] Re: Cheap trick

[James Asherman]

On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 12:32  AM, Carl Flatow wrote:

>
> On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 09:25 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
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>> On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 09:12  PM, Richard Dalziel-Sharpe 
>> wrote:
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>>> Thats the way Apple does things. Right.
>>>
>>
>> I like Apple a lot but it is a cash grab and short sighted at that, 
>> the licensing can be handled the same way they handle mpeg2 in QT (QT 
>> requires a $19.99 plug in to play the Mpeg2 format) with a plug in 
>> that you would have to purchase in order to use a external burner.  
>> They are able to handle the licensing with DVD Studio Pro and 
>> external burners but they feel we should make loyal Apple fans either 
>> buy new equipment or premium (expensive) software.
>>
>
> I think that anyone who wonders why Apple finds it necessary to make 
> money should ponder the Amiga. A superior computer platform that was 
> too unconcerned with where its profits would come from to survive.
>
> Carl
>
>

A; Being an Amigan I can tell you that you are wrong.
Amiga was ALL proprietary and though ahead at the start , could not 
catch up due to the proprietary nature of all their good stuff.
Apple seems to have absorbed that lesson. To an extent anyway.

B: a vanilla DVDR105 works for me too.
Jim