Newbie HVX200 P2 Question…

[Toke]

[David Battistella] “The firestores will make much more sense per GIG”

Problem with firestore is that it can record only 100Mb/s with dvcprohd (because HVX’s firewire stream.)
CinePorter sounds much more interesting…

[David Battistella]

Toke,

I fail to understand the reasoning in your post. Why is the Cineporter more interesting than a Firestore? The capacity is the same and they will both record directly from the camera which is only capable of putting out a MAX 1080 DCVPRO HD codec, so I really fail to see your point or why the cineporter is a more interesting solution to a Firestore.

David

I can’t believe it’s not butter!

[Ron Shook]

David,

[David Battistella] “I fail to understand the reasoning in your post. Why is the Cineporter more interesting than a Firestore? The capacity is the same and they will both record directly from the camera which is only capable of putting out a MAX 1080 DCVPRO HD codec”

I suspect that since the Cineporter records from the P2 rather than the Firewire port that Toke presumes that it’ll be able to record every format that a P2 Card can, which the Firewire connection can’t do. We’ll see whether that presumption is correct or not over time.

Ron Shook

[Barry Green]

CinePorter’s a lot more interesting than a FireStore for a lot of reasons. First is the P2 interface, which could (COULD) make it capable of storing 720/24pN or 720/30pN data. Firestore can’t do that according to info at DV Expo 8 weeks ago; don’t know if that’s changed or not. Second, CinePorter has multiple sizes, up to 320GB; FireStore is one fixed 100gb size. Third, and I don’t know how they’ll implement this, but CinePorter offers two-drive configurations; it may allow for RAIDing and inherent data duplication.

On the opposite side, FireStore is from a known company who’s now delivering their FIFTH generation of product, whereas I don’t think Spec-Comm’s ever released a product like this before. So obviously we’ll all have to wait and see how this plays out, but on paper there are a lot of interesting ideas going on with the CinePorter.

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[Rennie Klymyk]

It seems to me at last years NAB panasonic was predicting P2 cards around 64GB by 2007 and they would be working their way up there ie: 16gb; 32gb in the mean time. We all saw the 4 GB cards take a big price drop when the 8GB cards came out. I wonder how these advancements are comming. It would be nice to see the 16ers about now!

[Toke]

Yes it would be nice.
But as we have noticed about announcing HVX that “2007” can mean “2007Q4”, which can mean January 2008.
So if new cards come out steadily 16GB should be out 9/2006 and 32GB 5/2007.

[David Battistella]

And who really knows by then what new things will have hit the market that will be a solution that makes more sense and we will probably have seen the HVX200A, B &C by then too.

David

I can’t believe it’s not butter!