Sony DVD201 Camcorder support?

[David Bainbridge]

You may want to take a look at this MacWorld article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2007/06/tapeless/index.php

It may be of some help.

On Oct 29, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> A friend who is a Windows user wants to purchase her first Mac.  The  
> problem is that when she went to the Apple store, the staff could  
> not get her Sony DCR-DVD201 camcorder to work with the iMac 20" she  
> was looking at.  Does anyone here know of a quick, easy solution to  
> this?
>
> I read that the QuickTime MPEG-2 playback software "may" do the  
> trick.  Why the hell doesn't Apple just include this in Leopard?  If  
> you're buying a $2,000 computer, why not include a $20 plug-in?  Is  
> it because the patent holder of the MPEG-2 license can track the  
> number of Macs sold or something like that or some other legal reason?
>
>
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