Re: Aurora, anyone, what should I do?

To be fair to Aurora,

Patner has been on the market for what? about two weeks.

Apple and AJA obviously have some kind of special arrangement, as does Cinewave for some reason.

It may be because Aurora is in Michigan and not even close in proximity to Cupertino California.

I guess there have been alot of claims made by people on how many streams of Real time are avaialb ein Uncompressed etc, but do we all really want Apple and the G5 processors to do all the work.

I have not been impressed by RT extreme in even teh DV codec. It's not reliable on a DPGg4 1gig.

It's obvious that the game here is SELL MORE MACHINES. Look at what Apple has done in the past year, They have gassed OS9, made FCP 4 an OSX prerequisite, and now they are telling us that their software will work better on the newer faster macs that will be obsolete in 18 months.

I know it's an old rant, but what about the existing customer base that they need to support. there are about 7000 aurora cards out there. DO you think that every user is on Panther.

I wonder when AVID will have PANTHER approval. I know people still running their AVID on OS9.0.4 because the upgrade is in the thousands. I am sure Aurora will be certified soon.

Oh and FYI the DV timelines is a result of 6.4 of QT. How could Aurora have predicted that. As a manufacturer they only got beta copies of PANTHER and the code had changed in teh release.

Maybe the Aurora guys need a trip to California to Iron some of theis out.

David