OriginalAppleGuy

Well - that definitely does it for me. Doubling the annual cost, now can't easily subscribe/unsubscribe? No way. Bye Bye, Disney.

hogman said:

All I got from this is, how does a monitor cost $30,000? Especially when all the monitors I see in hospitals display simple graphs and numbers.

DICOM certified monitors are very high resolution and calibrated for the specific room they are being used in. They are very expensive. Think - you have a home theater and get a ISF certified tech to calibrate it for you and your room. It's like that only on steroids.

DICOM is generally used for high resolution radiologic images. From X-Rays, to PET, to CT, MRI, 3D Mammography, etc. 

I'm with THEM on this one. Apple is nuts. Some systems can take a cert. and keep on truckin'. Other systems require a restart. Problem is companies rely on vendors unless they design their systems themselves. NOT everything can be in the "cloud" which is just another data center BTW - due to constraints with getting there (internet), latency requirements, older tech requirements of applications. The company I work for has over 6K servers and untold thousands of devices that require certificates. Yes, we do our own certificates but not all apps work with them. 

So no - 12-13 months it should remain. 

chasm said:

OriginalAppleGuy said:

YouTube - has gotten ridiculous since Google bought them. The commercials make watching videos horrible. Have them up front, not every 10 seconds. And now this? It's laughable they don't have an app on the VP and go after someone that allowed a better experience than watching in a browser. I continue to look for other platforms and only go to You Tube when I have to. 

Regular TV interrupts shows to show ads, so YouTube does as well. I’m most definitely NOT defending this practice, but if you DON’T skip the ads at the beginning, you’ll get fewer-to-no ads interrupting the video, don’t skip those either. If you’re a frequent skipper, you get more ads and longer ads, and eventually UNSKIPPABLE ads.

Just mute the video, do something else for the length of the ad, and after a while of this you’ll be able to watch YouTube videos almost entirely uninterrupted.

Regular TV ads can be skipped when recorded. But when watching live, it's livable. The practice used by Google with YouTube is horrible. Don't offer a skip button if you are going to punish me for using it.

Pretty sure I've watched the ad at the beginning in totality then hit with ads every few seconds for a video when I'm trying to follow a process to troubleshoot an issue or see how to do something that's only on YouTube. I'll look out for what you are saying next time as following ads I'll skip.

gatorguy said:

humbug1873 said:

OriginalAppleGuy said:

YouTube - has gotten ridiculous since Google bought them. The commercials make watching videos horrible. Have them up front, not every 10 seconds. And now this? It's laughable they don't have an app on the VP and go after someone that allowed a better experience than watching in a browser. I continue to look for other platforms and only go to You Tube when I have to. 

Without a decent Ad Filter Youtube nowadays is unwatchable.

I don't use an ad filter on YouTube and have yet to see an ad. 

For the low cost of two Pumpkin Spice lattes's, you never have to see one either.  How easy can it be to avoid ads, and gosh it saves way more than the price of aggravation compared to the cost of a subscription.  I've always considered it weird that folks can afford a so-so or worse lunch a few times a month, but paying less than the cost of a single one for a media service is something beyond their budget.

The problem is all the "streaming" services one may have to subscribe to. It all adds up. I don't mind seeing an ad before a video starts - then leave it alone. That model worked for them and streamers were making plenty. Then Google got involved and it became unwatchable. And - for the record, I don't remember the last time I bought a Latte.