Posted by Kill Bill on 05/20/06 18:36

nappy wrote:

> "Mr. Tapeguy" <mr.tapeguy@pro-tape.com> wrote in message
> news:1148143897.635671.116860@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>>doc wrote:
>>
>>>do a google. that's how we found it. i think the search was something
>>>like
>>>this, "avid software usage" or "avid reliability" or "avid industry
>>>users"
>>>my son did the search (he was dead set against avid - - wanted to switch
>>>to
>>>Premier Pro when we were dumping the deadbeat g5's) i'm with him all day
>>>tomorrow at a shoot and i'll try to remember where he found it. then
>>>when
>>>we went to NAB post in NYC and met Thelma Schaunmaker (sp) who edited
>>>"The
>>>Aviator" for Marty (as she put it), she confirmed what my son had found
>>>indicating that everyone she knew used avid.
>>
>>
>>That was the case for many years but is no longer the case. Last time
>>I checked the Mac had around 50% market share as a PLATFORM (which
>>could include Final Cut, Avid and Media 100 primarily) and PC's were
>>around 70% since many facilities use both. That was mid-to-late 2005.
>
>
>
> Oh.. this is so unprovable.. Come on. man. No one ever really does surveys
> on this stuff.. it is all exaggeration and guessing. You vaselate between
> logic and hype.

doc said he did a survey.. but has yet to come up with where he go the
numbers..

-bill

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