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| Thread ID: 82131 | 2007-08-16 18:51:00 | 2008 Olympics to use XP rather than Vista | winmacguy (3367) | PC World Chat |
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| 581707 | 2007-08-18 08:58:00 | They could have always used Macs to do all that stuff like broadcasting and editing etc and used Windows for the rest but they didn't. They went with Windows all the way. Adobe Premier does a very good job on video editing which I know most Windows orientated stations use including TVNZ and TV3 (I think). The benefit of using Macs, Xserves and FCP2 www.apple.com is that you can handle a greater amount of simultaneous HDvideo streams on a MacPro than a PC without it crashing under the load. |
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| 581708 | 2007-08-18 12:31:00 | couldn't they just build/buy a gruntier pc? | motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 581709 | 2007-08-18 21:19:00 | It's not the gruntier PC that is the problem (and yes they probably could), it is the stability of the OS under consistently heavy loads running 8+ Gigs of RAM and several RAM intensive video apps 8 hours a day that is the issue. In this situation the MacPro is less expensive than the PC in US $. MacPros also handle a higher number of HD video feeds better than PCs which max out at 4 or 8 I think. MacPro specs here www.apple.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 581710 | 2007-08-18 23:16:00 | XP over Vista.. well ya could see that coming a mile off | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 581711 | 2007-08-18 23:57:00 | XP over Vista.. well ya could see that coming a mile off Watch what the PCWorld.com editors Round Table thinks about Vista.. www.pcworld.com |
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| 581712 | 2007-08-20 21:26:00 | is it just me or does that video come from ad.doubleclick.net, which practically every adblock program blocks?? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 581713 | 2007-08-21 01:49:00 | is it just me or does that video come from ad.doubleclick.net, which practically every adblock program blocks?? It might be just you. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 581714 | 2007-08-21 02:56:00 | lol. Funny, though, In IE norton blocks it, in firefox, adblock plus blocks it. If I turn the ad blocks off, the video loads |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 581715 | 2007-08-21 02:58:00 | lol. Funny, though, In IE norton blocks it, in firefox, adblock plus blocks it. If I turn the ad blocks off, the video loads I think I originally got it via Yahoo financial news (great for watching stock prices) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 581716 | 2007-08-21 04:50:00 | Try Google finance, gives Yahoo Finance a definite run for its money. Its syncs very nicely with any news stories which might have causes the share price to move. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
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