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Format War Over: Toshiba gives up HD-DVD
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Don’t buy one of the early ones, they don’y play home made discs.
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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[Chris Poisson] “I’ll tell you what blows, is that 2 months ago I dropped 400 bucks on a Toshiba A30”
On the bright side you should be able to purchase movies quite cheaply in the near future (until they quit making new ones).
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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[Steve Connor] “what do you use for your Blu Ray authoring?”
Adobe Encore. We’ve completed four titles and have two more waiting in the wings.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Rennie Klymyk] “Don’t buy one of the early ones, they don’y play home made discs.”
Yes they do. You need the firmware update for the unit. We have the very first Sony unit and after a firmware update, it plays all Blu Rays. Our clients have found the same with all their units.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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This modern world…. It used to be when you bought a piece of equipment it did what it did and nothing more. Now a days we can upgrade it as advances are made.
This is great news Walter.“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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Thanks Walter, are these commercially replicated titles and if so would you care to share your workflow?
Steve Connor
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[Steve Connor] “Thanks Walter, are these commercially replicated titles and if so would you care to share your workflow?”
We’ve purchased our own replicator as the commercial workflow is absolutely crazy right now. Minimum $6,500 for licensing and mastering before you burn your first disc. Crazy and I’m hoping now that HD-DVD is gone, that licensing fee is the first thing to go.
I’ve shared my workflow on quite a few posts already in this forum.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
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Well, this takes some of the uncertainty out of our shop’s planning. We’re an SD shop using FCP and taking our tentative first steps into HD production for news and spots. The distribution and archival issues have been huge headaches for us. Some of our multi-part strategy was to rely on BluRay disks for distribution to HD TV stations that didn’t want to use an internet or satellite-based distribution path, and we would also archive program masters and selected raw footage to bluray as appropriate.
What we really are looking for in the future is a stand-alone BluRay recorder that records HD off our cameras or switcher in real time like our SD stand-alone Panasonics do now, as well as BluRay drives we can plug into the FCP workstations for authoring as well as ingest. If they are not out yet, I expect they will be by the time we can free up the money for them. But you guys probably know more details. Most especially regarding FCP and Blu authoring. And by authoring I mean full-boat interactive disk authoring as well as simply burning one whopping great file to a bludisk as if laying to tape. I’d appreciate any knowledge or suggestions along those lines from you who are pioneering this stuff.
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[Mark Suszko] “And by authoring I mean full-boat interactive disk authoring as well as simply burning one whopping great file to a bludisk as if laying to tape. I’d appreciate any knowledge or suggestions along those lines from you who are pioneering this stuff.”
Adobe Encore is the only option at this time. it works very well, except the actual burning part. We use Toast to actually burn the file to disc.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR
The new Color Training DVD now available from the Creative Cow! -
Spare a thought for the poor mass duplicators. If Sony wins then the investment is so much higher. HD-DVD was about a quarter of the price to set up mass duplication.
And Walter, whilst I admire your optimism, I would have thought this made it easier for Sony to charge whatever licence fees they want.
Just for the record, I have seen excellent HD mpegII playing off a red laser, so blu ray is mostly about capacity. With multi layering technology proving to be as reliable as blu ray, I consider Sony is lucky to have won this format war. Don’t be surprised if the really big markets – China & India ignore blu ray and go with a multi layered red laser option which uses existing duplication lines plus multi layering to exceed blu ray capacity at a fraction of the cost.
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