derek said:
>   Let's try this again.

ok, let's.         :+)
long as it stays a friendly conversation...         :+)


>   I'm a little lost as to why one would spend 
>   the horde of cash required for a DV Mac 
>   without also updating old legacy peripherals. 

perhaps you didn't read the original post, then?

because pierre told us why.
his "old legacy peripherals"
are very expensive to replace.

nobody's arguing about the merits of
using a digital process to edit video.

pierre wants to edit digitally,
but what he wants is to get the 
input from analog equipment,
as well as his analog archives.

that doesn't sound unreasonable to me.
what sounds unreasonable is pretending
that no such analog archives exist any more,
that it's not an inherent part of the move to digital
that we expect our equipment to process old analog,
at least for some time while the switch is in-process.

and heck, the amiga was 
a computer that edited video
over a decade ago, wasn't it?
where has apple been all this time?

and that amiga _did_ have both 
video-in and video-out jacks, thank you,
so it could edit the output of analog equipment.
that's all pierre is asking for, far as i can tell.

this matter is similar to the u.s.b. transition.

why didn't apple give users an easy way to 
bridge the gap between the old and the new?

their failure to do so imposes great hidden costs on us (and 
mocks their own assertions to us on the importance of plug-n-play),
and think it's appropriate that we should call them on those facts.


>   Why buy something ditigal
>   if you don't have the equipment for it 
>   and have no intention or ability
>   to update what you currently have? 

i think that was precisely pierre's point.

-bowerbird