mixz1 wrote:deforest wrote:
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Yes I agree, but we should also explain to Intel/Lenovo/Analog Devices/other manufacturers and the RIAA that their good intentions to help struggling recording artists in Malibu and Beverly Hills (by crippling sound recording/capture capabilities to prevent music pirating) has led to unintended consequence for legal legitimate uses of this crippled feature such as viewing TV and capturing non-copyrighted material like family home movies on laptops running WinXP SP1 or SP2.
In my opinion, they have taken a sledge hammer approach to fix something that only needed tweezers. They and their lawyers did not fully "Think-Pad" this through properly and the same applies to most other laptop makers.
I wonder if Mac laptops are now also being crippled? By the performance of Apple corporate stock nearly tripling over the last 18 months I would suspect not ..... although the iPod and iPhone also helped to a great extent with the stock performance. I have a nephew now majoring in film and music technical production at a Los Angeles area university and he switched from the ThinkPad I gave him for High School graduation this year to a new Mac just two months ago as recommended by his professors ..... and who else to best know the real deal these days .... his profs right?
I think that pretty much sums it up regarding my opinions on this forum topic.
Fortunately I can afford to buy a cardbus sound card as a workaround, but I know lots of starving college students who don't live in Malibu or Beverly Hills that will get stuck with new non-Mac laptops running Win XP this year for Christmas. I predict that they will be quite upset when they discover that they no longer can watch TV on their laptops from their dorm rooms
I fear that the real Tsunami of complaints has yet to arrive.
Our forum Moderaters would be doing a public service to make this Thread a Sticky.
Thanks to everyone for their hard work and conrtibutions to this topic.
Note from Moderator: We're discussing whether this merits a sticky, and nagging us doesn't hasten the process.