Friday, 23 August 2002
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Mackie Hard Disk Recorders Now Use Broadcast Wave as Native Recording Format
WOODINVILLE, Wash., Aug. 22, 2002
-- Mackie Designs has released an OS upgrade for the company's HDR24/96 and MDR24/96 hard disk recorders that implements industry-standard Broadcast Wave as the native recording format on both units and enables compatibility with the recently announced OPT*24 and Serial*9 accessory cards.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
I'm not a Mackie user but I applaud them on going native with an industry standard. Everyone else should get in line.
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Washington Post: "The most downloaded album in Internet history -- the recently released 'The Eminem Show' -- is also the best-selling album of the year, which suggests that at least some fans were spurred to buy the disc even though they already had it stashed on their hard drives." [Scripting News]
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New postproduction unit has PM G4 at center [The Macintosh News Network]
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Surround Professional Item of the Day
Marantz Debuts DVD-A/SACD Multichannel Player
Itasca, IL (August 23, 2002)--There are many that believe that the DVD-Audio
and SACD formats won't gain mass-appeal until a universal player arrives
that plays all formats. [ProSound News] Great news. But we need a cheap player. this one is 1500 US bucks.
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The mane attraction: lionesses prefer dark-haired lions
A male lion may swelter in the heat under his long, dark mane, but a new
study suggests the pain is worth it -- lionesses find dark, shaggy
manes a turn-on.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]They're actually talking about lions. Real lions. No metaphors. Dang. I was about to natter on about how I'd had long hair for years and . . . well, never mind!
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NY Times: Palmtops in the Operating Room. For now, the cardiac unit in Miami has one of the most extensive hand-held systems in the medical industry. A small but growing number of hospitals are using palmtops for writing prescriptions, consulting reference manuals and, in a few cases, keeping records... [Tomalak's Realm]
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Create an iMovie PAL project without a PAL camera [Mac OS X Hints]
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John Robb: "That a puny $20 billion industry is on a path to potentially cause $100 billion in damage to the US economy based on less than $1 billion in suspected damages defies reason." [Scripting News]
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