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Posted by J. Clarke on 05/07/06 11:18
doc wrote:
> I'm totally in agreement. Why do we need HD anyways unless we're trying
> to
> zoom in on a bug or a flower? After all, going from 320 lines SD to 720
> was
> a marketed improvement (like ~125%) but from 720 to 1080 for what? 50%
> better than absolutely beautiful? geez, for one we're not going there.
> like said above, why spend $7,000 plus for what appears on the screen by
> the average consumer as about a 5% improvement (that's what on the street
> viewers report) :o(
So you're OK with 720 but consider 1080 to be excess? Both are part of the
HD standard and if your system can edit one it can edit the other so I
don't really understand what you're on about.
> drd
>
> "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in message
> news:125lud9nbb4st09@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> 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? What does it get
>> me....buy a Blu Ray drive, when it is $1000 with $25 media?
>>
>> What is your target audience.
>>
>> Canopus made a HUGE mistake discontinuing its Storm II line.
>>
>>
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--John
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