More Neutered Technology
I’ve been developing a very solid opinion that this kind of thing is becoming the norm nowadays for technology. Companies release hardware that has great potential to do truly great and useful things, and then they completely drop the ball on the implementation of it. Another case in point:
The Elgato Turbo.264 H.264 Video Conversion Stick
Anyone who does video conversion knows that the process is long, boring, and wastes time that one could be doing getting more important things done. Video conversion is very hardware intensive, and anything that could make that process faster and less boring is very much appreciated.
Elgato had it right in concept: a USB add-on that would take the load off your processor for converting to H.264 video. Problem is they funneled its use through their severely limited software, which only allows a couple different conversion presets, does not support anamorphic or widescreen ratios, etc and so forth. Not only did they make a complete bottleneck of the interface software, but they couldn’t be bothered to release an API for independent developers to write more useful software, or make existing software integrate with it.
Boo-urns.
