Blu-ray & HD-DVD players coming

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JJKizak wrote on 1/5/2006, 5:54 AM
The Z1 is a much better camcorder than people realize. It takes a lot of verbal hits from the "elite HD people" with their heads stuck in the sand.
They think HDV is some frivolus thing for kids. Just check some of the other forums about HD and what they say, if it doesn't cost 100 grand forget it.

JJK
Xander wrote on 1/5/2006, 6:27 AM
I don't have an HDMI interface on my HD TV, amp or video processor. If that is required for playback, it will be many years before I upgrade my entire system. I am pretty sure that most people out there with HD TVs at the moment don't have HDMI interfaces either, unless they bought one in the last six months. BD as a data backup medium is the most viable use of the technology that I see at present.
Padre wrote on 1/5/2006, 6:28 AM
Neh, to be honest, im not bothering with HD for my broader customers until they can go to a video shop and hire a HD DVD, whatever form it may be in...

Once the public are aware of teh HD DVD format, thats when ill bother.. for now, im keeping my HD work in the WMV realm for those clients who actually ask for it..
John_Cline wrote on 1/5/2006, 7:33 AM
"So why have so many felt compelled to jump on the HD bandwagon so early? This is one thing I simply cannot understand."

For me, it is a matter of being able to start shooting and collecting HD stock footage, whether it's for clients or just my own library.

HDV camcorders have the ability to downconvert HDV footage in real-time and what comes out the firewire port is good, old SD DV. This lets you continue to crank out SD projects, but all the material is in HD for use in the future. As far as I'm concerned, there is no reason not to shoot HDV as it doesn't take any more time or effort to just capture the HDV footage as DV and edit as usual if that's what you need to do. You'll be producing stuff in HD sooner or later and, when you do, all your SD client stock footage will be essentially unusable. Of course, if you never reuse footage, then it's certainly less of a problem.

Why wouldn't you want to shoot at the highest resolution possible? That's always been the beauty of film, the larger formats have been HD since the 1930's.

John
Jay Gladwell wrote on 1/5/2006, 8:45 AM

Why wouldn't you want to shoot at the highest resolution possible?

First of all, other than plugging the camera into an HDTV, there is no way to watch the material, as of today, Januray 5, 2006.

When HD discs/players are available, they will be very expensive, as we have already seen in the past 24 hours.

If I wanted to "shoot at the highest resolution possible" then I'd be shooting in 70mm film, for example. But in the end, after I've shot my footage, I'm still in the same predicament, I don't have any way to watch it.

I've seen HDV footage down-rezed to SD and I wasn't impressed, not enough to dump my XL2 and buy an HDV camera.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no reason to shoot HDV, not yet. Maybe in another a year or two. Maybe sooner if something extraordinary happens, but I'm not holding my breath.


JJKizak wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:22 AM
Jay:
1...MY-HD-130 card will show it perfectly from your hard drive. (tp, m2t)
2...JVC D-VHS VCR will also play back with 5.1 sound as MY-HD.
3...Sony Mini HDV VCR
4...JVC portable HDV VCR
5...There are others that I am not aware of.

JJK
Jay Gladwell wrote on 1/5/2006, 10:12 AM

Not for me, for clients