Just to clarify a bit. AVCHD will play on the PC with several players I have owned and used,including the free DiVX player. Some of the other AVCHD players are Nero's Show Time, ArcSoft's Total Media Theater, Cyberlink's PowerDVD 7 HD versions, Corel's WIN DVD 9 Plus BluRay, as well as all of the authoring programs for AVCHD on the PC, which number 7 I can immediately think of. That makes at least a dozen in total! The Mac is vastly less versatile / capable when playing AVCHD content from the camcorder, although I do find it very competent for HDV. He was asking about OS X. Also, you are counting DVD Players which, in their HD versions, are not free or even cheap. And, it's not obvious to a new camcorder buyer than DIVX has anything to with AVCHD. I think of DIVX only in the context of ripping (stealing) SD DVDs since MPEG-2, AVC, and VC-1 are what the industry uses. Most people expect to play their media with either a QT Player or WM Player. But, thank you for the tip on the DIVX. I'll have to see if the DIVX player that's on my Mac can play AVCHD -- although unless I had a MacPro it won't really play. Pick a 4K movie from your library or the Video Unlimited store, and watch it via your Sony 4K Ultra HD Media Player when you get home. Google Play; Xperia™ Transfer. Xperia™ Transfer lets you seamlessly transfer your data and content from your old Android device to a new Sony Xperia™ smartphone. I know he was asking about OS-X Steve, but your comment that there 'is only one PC player' for AVCHD is really quite wrong. I agree that some of this PC software is indeed a bit expensive, but the very best of them on the PC (in my opinion) is Nero Show Time which comes with an entire suite of really useful software including disk burning, AVCHD disk creation and editing, and other things and is available for $69. None of the other programs is much more than $79 with the exception of Pinnacle 12 Ultimate, which now sells for a bit over $100 but has a $30 rebate. Thanks, guys, for the information and discussion on this. This AVCHD format is reminding me of things like FireWire - great technologies buried alive by the licensors. Though it never had a Mac OS X product, several months ago I came accress Mirillis.com who had a simple app called Oxygen AVCHD Player. Now, if you go to that site you will see that the AVCHD cops took it down. What a shame. Does this mean VLC will be killed when version 9 comes out with playback support for AVCHD? But is not AVCHD h.264? And is not h.264 an open (free) standard? I'm confusued. Is AVCHD a free and open standard or not? I admit, I don't really know. But is not AVCHD h.264? And is not h.264 an open (free) standard? I'm confusued. Is AVCHD a free and open standard or not? I admit, I don't really know. AVC/H.264 is part of MPEG-4 which owned by the MPEG group. You can't, they claim, have an AVC encoder/decoder without a license. Sony and Pana took a license for AVC, locked certain parameters, and now had a product they could license to others. It's not clear if they only license the NAME. It might be legal to have an AVC codec that used exactly those parameters as long as you called it something else, e.g., AVCPIX. Note there are two versions of AVCHD: one uses the less powerful BASE profile (Sony) and the other the MAIN profile (Canon and Pana). Which I suspect reflects Sony's desire to keep AVCHD restricted to consumer camcorders. PS: I claim codecs are math and one can NOT patent an equation. Think of human development if Sum, Chi Square, Mean, Standard Deviation, FFT, etc. Had been able to be receive a patent.
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