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macOS 13.2 Breaks Compatibility With Pioneer's CD/DVD Drives [Updated]
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But CD's are very often only marginally more expensive than the digital download. Buy the CD, you get a physical object with artwork that looks nice (and you can rip it and get the digital files also, in whatever format you want. it's a win/win situation). Sometimes I buy Digital (for example if CD is not immediately available etc.), but I then often burn a CD from a FLAC/ALAC version of the digital files (using my old iMac). Being able to play on my CD player at home is a convinience for me.
Apple has been screwing up USB since MacOS 12. I think they literally want to see teachers with interactive projectors entirely switch to PCs at this point. Apple simply ignores everything we escalate to them regarding USB.
You're linking to a confirmed 'glitch' as proof digital content people purchase will be permanently unavailable?No, if their agreement with Apple ends then the content cannot be distributed by Apple.
This has happened on Amazon and other places. It’s worth googling about.
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Also, there's a difference between 'no longer distributed for sale' (rare, but happens) and 'no longer available after you've purchased'. <- I don't recall a scenario where this has ever happened IRL. And don't find me a link about some guy who lived in the US and bought movies then got real mad when he moved to New Zealand and couldn't access them all.
That’s what you get for purchasing a computer from a place that specifically states they sell radios. 😉
(I use to work there too. I remember trying to explain to people that yes adding a hard drive to the computer was something they wanted to do.)
Interesting - I always thought your collection stays on your HDD as I can always see the file taking the space.
No, if their agreement with Apple ends then the content cannot be distributed by Apple.
This has happened on Amazon and other places. It’s worth googling about.
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A better title would have been: "Apple discontinues support for CD/DVD drives". It is not a bug, it is a feature. And a courageous feature in that.
How to upset everyone? Tell them that CDs and DVDs are dead and then watch the rage unfold :-D
At least they still support my 2501. I still have a bunch of these floppy’s I need to reead:
Apple broke the USB subsystem in Monterey and has never fixed it. Between excessively long USB drive mount times and hub incompatibility, it's been an ongoing issue.
That said, this must be model dependent. My pioneer drive still mounts and works.
Product ID: 0x017a
Vendor ID: 0x08e4 (Pioneer Corporation)
Version: 1.00
Not everyone downloads their purchases, and if a movie is pulled from a store will it be pulled from you purchases too? This will be decided by a studio and the distributor. Customers are powerless here without consumer rights.
Apple is a distributor and distribution agreements can end. Sometimes the studios behind a movie can get into fights when the ownership rights change. Many things like that can change distribution agreements.
There are two examples in the article but I explicity said people interested should google about these issues. I simply pulled one of the first articles in the results because I’m obviously not going to go through all of them.
If you bought a movie online in the US and moved to China for example, where the movie is banned, you may not be able to download or watch the movie again. Your library will now have to follow Chinese laws.
This distribution issue has arisen before in a number of cases. Changing your country of residence can affect some stores online if a movie is not distributed in a region.
It's strange how we all think that because we live in a digital age, all our photos, videos, music and other media will be preserved forever, no longer vulnerable to the passage of time as it was in the past.
However, when you think how fast technology advances, the mediums and formats that are in common use today will quickly become obsolete. How many people have got stuff on VHS, DV, audio cassette, Minidisc, Laserdisc etc that they're now unable to play? Digital content on floppy disk? Old computer videos that they come to watch and find that the codec is no longer supported? At some point in the future, the same will be true of jpg & mpg. Yes, some stuff will get updated to remain available, but a lot of the stuff we think is safe is, to all intents and purposes, already lost.
In the mid 1980s, the BBC worked with some big technology companies on the Domesday Project to build a digital record of life in Britain for future generations, stored on LaserDiscs in LV-ROM format - the media of the future. By 2002, it took another major project just to be able to access the material.
However, when you think how fast technology advances, the mediums and formats that are in common use today will quickly become obsolete. How many people have got stuff on VHS, DV, audio cassette, Minidisc, Laserdisc etc that they're now unable to play? Digital content on floppy disk? Old computer videos that they come to watch and find that the codec is no longer supported? At some point in the future, the same will be true of jpg & mpg. Yes, some stuff will get updated to remain available, but a lot of the stuff we think is safe is, to all intents and purposes, already lost.
In the mid 1980s, the BBC worked with some big technology companies on the Domesday Project to build a digital record of life in Britain for future generations, stored on LaserDiscs in LV-ROM format - the media of the future. By 2002, it took another major project just to be able to access the material.
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Nah, generally just start spouting strong opinions about something you don't quite understand. That'll usually do it!
Because Apple evidently pays in peanuts, and only has primates as developers, otherwise such a fact could not happen.
There are layers to the issue.
First layer is that you don't really "own" digital content even though you "bought" it. if you read the fine print you are just given a licence to download and play it they way the company sees fit. that license can be taken away at anytime.
Second layer is that if the content is removed from your digital library you aren't always owed a refund or credit. most of the time its up to the good will of the company to reimburse you.
Third layer - you still have the file on your computer? that's cool but it has DRM in it that won't let you play the file if the company decides to disable it. it might. work for a few days, weeks, or months but they can disable it. there are some places where you can get DRM free media but its rare these days.
this is why people decide to buy physical media and rip their own copy so it is not in control from the companies.
That, and streaming video is has much higher compression (especially audio) than what comes on a 4K blu-ray disc.
Their USB subsystem development team certainly has major QA issues.
And you get extra stuff on the DVDs/BDs.
You can only download at 1080p quality from iTunes.
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Which is why I don't want to hear some edge case about people moving to other countries/regions.
You use digital distribution as expected, you always have your content. Too much FUD.
Its not about that. Its about tech moving forward and things die in the process. Happened to a lot of tech in the past (as pointed out, floppy discs we all grew up on are dead too).
Are there people using those now? Of course but that doesn't negate the fact that its dead tech.
Same for CDs and DVDs - its dead and on the way out. Just that simple.
Are there people using those now? Of course but that doesn't negate the fact that its dead tech.
Same for CDs and DVDs - its dead and on the way out. Just that simple.
True. I have lots of movies on my Mac that was imported over years ago that cannot play with current versions of Mac OSX. These videos played just fine in Mac OS 8.
I occasionally still import a CD into my music library.