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Posted by J. Clarke on 05/05/06 10:22
Alpha wrote:
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> "Gary Bettan" <videoguy@videoguys.com> wrote in message
> news:445aac9d.257051062@news.optonline.net...
>> This year's NAB show was very different from the last couple of years.
>> Unlike the previous 2 shows, this year we saw a bunch of exciting new
>> products that will be shipping within the next few months! That's
>> right folks, we've finally turned a big corner. We didn't spend time
>> looking at products we may sell in the future, we spent our time
>> seeing products that our customers will be able to buy and use almost
>> immediately.
>>
>> Before we go into the products we saw on the NAB floor, I'd like to
>> talk about the product we delivered to the NAB show floor. We had
>> Pioneer fly in five sample BDR-101A Blu-ray disc burners to our hotel
>> in Vegas. We had received several frantic calls from some of our
>> vendors the week prior to NAB asking if we could supply them units in
>> time for the show. I was very happy when Pioneer was able to make it
>> happen (as were our vendors). We are still waiting for our first
>> production units to arrive for us ship to customers. We hope to have
>> them here in the middle of May.
>>
>> I'm going to give you our NAB report as a series of articles just as
>> I did last year. I'm going to start with news from two of our biggest
>> vendors Matrox & Avid. Both companies had special dealer meetings
>> (over the weekend - before the show began) loaded with exciting
>> product announcements and news.
>>
>> To read Part I of our NAB report http://www.videoguys.com/NAB2006.html
>>
>> Gary
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>
> As long as you have exciting new products to sell....with no market for
> them....good luck.
>
> I see no benefit at the consumer and prosumer level for HD.
Have you actually _seen_ HD? Once you get used to seeing that SD looks kind
of like 8mm movies.
> Tell, me, what is it...and why do I need to spend $7000 for a computer
> that
> fits Avid and Matrox with software and hardware?
You don't _need_ to. The Matrox products are aimed at the pro market. You
don't need them in order to produce HD--if you're doing it for a living
they pay for themselves fairly quickly in time saved, but if you're not you
can get the same results more slowly.
> What does it get
> me....
Mostly realtime. Same thing that the Canopus REX got you with a 400 MHz
PIII.
> buy a Blu Ray drive, when it is $1000 with $25 media?
You don't need a blu-ray drive to use HD, just to distribute long projects
in a reasonably standard single-disk format. You're confusing a
distribution medium with a video format.
> What is your target audience.
>
> Canopus made a HUGE mistake discontinuing its Storm II line.
Does it still have a market with processor speeds being what they are today?
--
--John
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