Posted by doc on 09/20/05 19:46

thanks so much for the recap John i absolutely loved the build at the end.
really and appreciably i had to share it with my wife who has been watching
me fall apart one piece at a time on this project. if i get this thing done
it will only be perserverence to the objective, get the program on the air
digitally by 10/1/05.

looks like the wire has approached and as John most amply projected (but not
the reasons that were indicated - the deception monsters) we're going
dvx100a's. i personally wanted the sony z1u but two local tv broadcasters
(we have 19 in our local market) shared with me that there are more than a
dozen regular weekly shows being produced with panasonic dvx100a's AND that
there are nearly two and a half times the number of panasonic dvx100a's in
the field at television stations than there are sony fx1 & z1u's COMBINED.
that's amazing! guess that should tell us all what we should at least be
directing our attention toward, huh? and, from the conversation looks like
part of the reason is that by and far tv stations have been pleased with
panasonic's dvcpro that litterally captured the digital tv market and has
become the STANDARD like sony used to be with beta. guess, there's a NEW
LEAD horse, huh?

also, when i called around to see if i could "test drive" a sony z1u, there
isn't a single one on the shelf of any store within 128 covering 3 major
cities in ohio and two major cities in pennsylvania. in fact, the largest
seller of sony z1u's sold 6 in the last year while the smallest seller
indicated that his order database was to tell but 100's anyway. thus, if
the 100's format, specs, and whatever it is that is not too cool is sooo
bad, wonder why every one is ordering them? one reason stated to me sounded
half way reasonable. . the z1u' has an identity crisis. it thinks it's a
$20,000 dvcam but it's not and thus it is the only camera on the market with
mini dv that records dvcam like the biggies but to the best of everyone i
talked to, no one knew of a minidv recorder or player that could be used.
kinda like the VHS "C" one said.

thus for local product support, system identification, and application usage
(AND since the whole SD/HD battle isn't resolved yet) we're gonna go with
the 100's and pick up yet a forth cam as the founder and co-host want to
have another wide angle that will be on them that can just be switched to
without need to focus.

thanks for all the help guys and for the lead in this matter and i hope to
report back some good results forthcoming next month OR "o geez, what do i
do now?"

leaving the FUD zone :o)

doc

"Moving Vision" <mv@movingvision.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Ys5NP2KS6+LDFwOF@movingvision.demon.co.uk...
> In article <WDLXe.7307$i86.6440@trndny01>, doc <doc@drdimento.net> writes
>>thanks Steve. it is a delima. we've pretty much zero'd in on the dvx100a
>>and ran a test today and very pleased with what we seen while using the
>>camera recording in all the camera control phases as well as both SD 4:3
>>and
>>SD 16:9 (letterbox) and will post the takes tomorrow and burn off a dvd
>>and
>>tape and see how it looks. got our hope up cause we think we can get a
>>pretty good buy on 'em (b's)
>>
>>however, someone mentioned above in another thread that the color balance
>>goes off during panning sequences and while we're not going to be doing a
>>lot of that i would be very concerned if we set this up for "live
>>production" and end up with white balance out :o(
>>
>>doc
>>
>
> The DV100A (not the one without the A) provides a true anamorphic 16:9
> aspect ratio just the same as the PD150/170 and others but since it has a
> 4:3 chip set it does it by cutting off the top and bottom 12.5% of the
> picture and stretching the remaining bit into the anamorphic 16:9 ratio.
> This therefore reduces the resolution by 25%. You may not notice this at
> first look but you'll notice it when you have wide scenes with small
> detail. Also Letter Box and anamorphic are not the same thing. Letter box
> is 'pretend' 16:9 as revealed when displayed on a true 16:9 monitor when
> the toy town letter box mode is still showing black bars top and bottom
> and the picture is distorted. You need true anamorphic 16:9 if it's to be
> shown correctly on a 16:9 TV/Monitor.
>
> Crikey! I must get some work done. This whole strand is so cringe worthy
> I'm not sure I can stand to see what seems likely to be the appalling
> outcome. It's a bit like watching a horrible movie where you just know
> what the awful ending is going to be half way through the film.
>
> Is Doc gonna pull through? Will the deception monsters lead him into the
> abyss? Will Doc suddenly get it together and see the light? It doesn't
> look good as he repeatedly reasserts his attachment to the deception
> monsters. I'll switch off now as I don't want to see our hero meet his
> sticky end........
> --
> John Lubran

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