#Capture Files
Dean:
Let me jump in in support of the consumer. Maxtor does have an "AV" drive, BUT
their "AV" does not stand for audio video or audio/visual or any other "AV"
from any high school equipment prep room. No, it is with true marketing
insight that Maxtor has created an acronym for "ADDED VALUE." :-> Perhaps in
their defence I should note that, having spoken with officials there, I don't
believe it to be an intentional deception. Multimedia, after all, means
different things to different people; overhead transparancies and audio, or
singing and dancing together… :-)))
BTW, marketing tsar, Rick Lucas at Micropolis deserves a lot of credit for
using T-Cal (thermo recal..) to get everyone to think video on a hard disk. He
was absoluting right that video creates special problems for hard drives. It
turns out, though, that T-Cal is just the poster child for a couple dozen
factors and parameters that have to be dealt with properly for optimal video
performance.
Jeff Sauer