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Grazie wrote on 2/4/2004, 6:24 AM
Phhhoarrrhhh . . farss . .that's some kit . . Would this part of the "Those who know aint saying anything . . " quote . . . . looks a wee bit rich for me . . all them knobs and things . .

Now, where did I put my Abacus . . ?

Grazie
filmy wrote on 2/4/2004, 6:41 AM
I find it so ironic that there is this big PR thing about the September 11 film using this. Why it is ironic is that in Septmeber 2001 Sony was too busy pushing their "make it a new tommorrow" deal to give a **** about the events of that day. When I tried to approach them about helping with gear they told me to, in a word, screw off. Their reason was they were running thi s promotion and needed to concentrate on sales. I kid you not! As people lay buried under ruble of the World Trade Center and the nation was mourning Sony Corp was pushing specials!! I was, and still am, so disgusted in this I have boycotted Sony and urged others to do so as well. When Sony caught wind of this they issued a press release about donating 2 million - which was great but Sony Corpy had posted something like a 105 billion profit in 2000...2 million to them is like a penny to most of us. I got some email from people inside of Sony saying how proud they were of their company for donating the 2 million. What I said to them was it doesn't matter what the individuals think because Sony Corporate was activly pushing this deal and that alone was bad taste and when combined wtth the individual(s) who had no time for charity, only sales, it was too much. Now Sony continues pushing sales by hyping a 9/11 film....using the tragedy to boost sales.

Sony disgusts me.

And I am still sad that SoFO went to the dark side. I have been, and after reading this Sony press release even more, troubled by using something owned by Sony. Vegas and Sound Forge are awesome, Sony is not.
taliesin wrote on 2/4/2004, 6:53 AM
XPri isn't a new system but kind of news system ;-).
It's been Sony's answer to news editing systems like Avid Newscutter. It's aiming to quite a different kind of customers than Vegas does.

Marco
farss wrote on 2/4/2004, 7:21 AM
While it's far from new they seem to have finally got the thing stable. Obviously it's rather expensive but the spin was being able to use Vegas as low end 'offline' version, much like Express DVs relationship with Avid's high end systems. If that comes about things could get interesting.
Combine that with plans by Sony to push IMX as the next big thing and you have a way to capture and edit HD via 1394 on low(er) end systems.
taliesin wrote on 2/4/2004, 11:09 AM
Yeah, this would be very interesting indeed.

Marco
farss wrote on 2/14/2004, 12:22 AM
Read about Harpo Productions switching to this systems:

http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/news/n_oprah_gets_digital.shtml

Being able to ingest SD at double real time sounds impressive. The only other format that has that capability is DVCPRO and I don't think too may people got that to work