Re: Crappy Consumer Stuff
>>Really? What happened to D-1 and D-2? Last I heard, Brodcast Beta was only 500 lines. And wasn't Hi-8 the format that brought us the gulf war?<<
Sony D-2 is the highest level of digital composite tape. It is also the most expensive. It is used for mastering programming, not distribution to media outlets. Beta SP is more than good enough, and significantly better than the NTSC or PAL standards. There would be no significantly better result if the source was a D-2 when watching a televised broadcast at home. D-1 is even more expensive, as it separates the image into it's components. It's primary use is for mastering broadcast graphics. Again, overkill for the broadcast market.
Hi-8 is a format that quality-wise falls in between 1/2" VHS and Beta. It is, however, notoriously unreliable and prone to dropouts. It is cheap compared to Beta, so a lot of gulf war footage came courtesy of consumer camcorders (and it looked it).
>>Umm, Rock, I hate to break the news to you, but we longs are in IOM because it is a consumer oriented company. You may think it is "crappy", we don't.<<
Fair enough. But don't forget that there is a large (and growing) professional market out there, and Sony makes a killing in this niche. SyQuest has a fair chance at grabbing this market as well.
>>Average consumers can and should ignore it until the FAT32 file system is standard. it has been out for a year now (since Win95 OSR2), and NO ONE turns it on in any shipping PC ! There are bugs in it, and it has been called (by high-end professionals) the worst idea MS has ever come up with. With FAT16, as long as you cannot format a removable, you can only use 2.1 of your 4.7 GB anyway.<<
Lest we forget, the graphics and broadcast/entertainment industries are largely Mac-based. I myself own one of these fine machines. I know, I know, Apple may not exist in the future, but for now, ALL of my applications (Avid, Pro-Tools, Quark XPress, etc.) pertinent to my work are Mac based. (And, I would assume, one would be able to partition the 4.7 Gig Quest anyway). |
