--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Bingo, "press releases" are the operative words. And who does those? > Marketing. I just went through a product release where marketing put a > bunch of hype on the technology making it sound like it was much more > than it actually was. > > I'm not saying that Apple products are bad or that their technology is > bad. But to most of us in the industry they're just "another machine." :) >
Yeah, the US government is all Mac fanatics who do Apple's PR for them...: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000079.shtml#sign History As indicated in the preceding note, ISO_BMCC is derived from Apple's QuickTime. The Apple connection was celebrated in an item in MacWeek, February 16, 1998: "QuickTime received a ringing endorsement last week when a consortium of high-tech companies announced that the International Organization for Standardization, better known as ISO, had adopted QuickTime's file format as a centerpiece of MPEG-4, the forthcoming multimedia standard." (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MWK/is_n7_v12/ ai_20331478)
