" I just saw the post on Vidi 0.4.6 being Universal Binary. I have been using that version for a few days and it works wonderfully.
I checked on Formac's website to see what they had to say about Intel compatibility and to my surprise they have a Universal Binary version (3.5.0) of their Formac Studio TVR application.
It seems there were no changes to the application other than this, and CPU usage is still higher than Vidi, among some other annoyances, so I think I'll stick with Vidi for now.
Thanks, Will "

I checked Formac's site and here's a link to the Support/Software page that has v3.5.0 software download link. Although in the past others have also said they preferred using Vidi.

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" Release 3.6 (Build 060504)
By request of many interested customers, this update is published earlier than initially intended. You only need to update from 3.5 if you like to use one of the following modifications:

Due to very high demand, this version adds support for the third-party software "SpeedIt" by InCrew Software, Spain. SpeedIt is a kernel extension for Mac OS X which grants user applications permission to access the on-chip CPU temperature sensor of Intel-based Macintosh systems. The monitoring application will automatically detect if SpeedIt is running on the system. If yes, the features of SpeedIt will be used to acquire readings from the CPU. For additional information, please see the FAQ chapter of the reference manual.

Enhanced support for the first generation iBook G4, where temperature sensors of the type Analog Devices ADT7460 did not deliver their readouts fast enough with specific Mac OS X versions, causing intermittent display of zero values.

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There's also updates to Temperature Monitor Widget (v1.6), Hardware Monitor Widget (v1.6) and Hardware Monitor Remote (v3.6).
Uli sent a note that there's another GUI available now that uses the Speedit extension for CPU temp. reporting also at http://macbricol.free.fr/coreduotemp/.

" Dear xlr8yourmac,
I thought you might want to tell your readers that Vidi 0.4.6 was released this Sunday. This is the first release of Vidi as a Universal application, and to the best of my knowledge, Vidi is currently the only application for controlling Formac's Studio DV, DV/ TV and TVR devices that runs natively on Intel-based Macs.
Vidi is freeware.
For download and more information see http://mitzpettel.com/software/vidi.php
Regards,
Mitz P. "

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