New Standard for HD recording/playback in works.

wcoxe1 wrote on 7/10/2003, 2:52 PM
According to yesterday's news, Sony, JVC, Canon, and Sharp are part of a group that is establishing a new set of standards for "recording and playback of High Definition sources on cassette." "They expect to be finished by September 2003.

By cassette, I expect something like a Mini-DV or DV cassette is meant, but there is no clue of its exact nature. I hope by High Definition they actually mean 1920x1080 or better. Not something as limited as the JVC current "HDV" model. But, who knows. This time next year could see a few VERY interesting machines on the market, if that report is true. I just hope they are not talking about a DECK with VHS sized cassette. UGH!

Comments

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 7/10/2003, 6:29 PM
The should forget tapes and go straight for the (removable) hard drive camera
farss wrote on 7/10/2003, 6:37 PM
It will be the same standard as used in the JVC GR-HD1.

Recording to HDD sounds great and you can do it now with most cameras using a box that mounts on back of camera from Firestore. You'd need to consider how you feel about having a gyroscope spinning on the back of your camera, ever tried to move a spinning HDD?
videoman69 wrote on 7/10/2003, 8:14 PM
Sounds great! DV basically killed my BetaSP shop. Now Consumer HD might kill many other things. Don't get me wrong I love all the DV stuff but gone are the $1000 per day BetaSP shoots for corporate video. Now I sit and edit a lot of Bad DV stuff shot by corporate managers who think they are the next Spielberg. At least video editing for these wankers is a little over there heads.
filmy wrote on 7/10/2003, 8:40 PM
I posted the press release link in this thread on July 5. The info for HDV is here.
wcoxe1 wrote on 7/11/2003, 11:36 AM
Very interesting, thanks, filmy.

I am glad to see that the spec at least ALLOWS higher resolution then the 720 of the JVC unit. I was very disappointed with that.

I am a bit perplexed, though. This HDV spec lists 1080i as 1440 horizontal pixels. The official definition of 1080i has 1920 horizontal pixels. That means the new spec is MISSING about 1/4 of the official resolution of 1080i, and yet they still call it 1080i. Brother.

With the original DV, with 720 pixels we basically had MORE than the standard TV, and therefore if we cropped a tiny bit, we really didn't lose definition when shown on a standard TV.

With THIS odd defintion of 1080i, we don't even START with full 1080i capability as seen on a 1080i HD TV. How disappointing. I had hoped that HDV would be something like 2048 x 1240, so when cropped a tiny bit it would still be at least the official 1920 x 1080i. Oh, well. Sad!
rmack350 wrote on 7/11/2003, 12:56 PM
Maybe you need to show them and their bosses a reel that is better than what they're doing.

Bring lights. Hardly anyone new to the field can light. They're adrift at sea.

Honestly, If you can show that you can get better sound and light than a "Wanker" then you ought to be able to get your rate.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that, at your rate, you were bringing mics and a small light kit. Time to look for more clients.

Rob Mack