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Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/10/07 15:32
"ushere" wrote ...
> my thinking is 21st century - hence buying a hdv camera. it is also
> professional in as much as i:
>
> a. after demo'ing it, i knew i would not depend on this camera for good
> audio.
You come off here as completely unknowledgable of how incredibly
easy (and ultra-cheap) it is to produce equipment with ruler-flat
frequency response at least 20-20KHz. Yes, that would have been
difficult 30, 20, maybe even 10 years ago. But with modern chip
technology that is availble to anyone for literally pennies each, you
really have to work at it to produce some thing like what Mark is
measuring. The gross anomoly that Mark is describing is
outragrous by any measure.
> e. finally, in the 21st century the main game is returning the biggest
> dividend to your shareholders with the least costs. the v1 does it for me.
> i doubt sony is any different than any other corporation with getting away
> with what it can, and at the same time, trying to protect it's product
> range from internal competition.
Using 1/4-inch chips in lower end products, or smaller/cheaper
lenses is one thing. Even deliberately limiting the bandwith of the
MPEG compression is understandable (but still galling). But
deliberately rolling off the audio frequency response in such a
gross manner is just beyond the pale. Mark's reaction is no
different than most any of us would have been at the discovery
of such a swindle.
A major portion of my video equipment and key parts of my audio
gear are Sony, but I have to say that for future purchases, they no
longer have a "free pass" to any assumption of quality. Sony today
is apparently a very different company today than Akio Morita's
original innovative and progressive vision.
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