PDW-700 Owners – Please Read

[Steve Phillipps]

Exactly what I did, got rid of the 700 and bought a Varicam. The best deal I was offered on my 5 month old PDW700 vs a new 800 was about £12000 against £25000 cost of an 800! This means I’d be losing over £1000 a month!
Bye bye Sony.
Steve

[Tim Gibbons]

. . . . and I hope somebody at Sony hears about customers like you Steve. As physical media formats go away and file based video becomes the norm, the brand and model of your camera will become less and less important. NLEs will be able to handle everything and card readers will become very, very cheap.

At some point adequate “resolution” will be a matter of course. 35mm became the norm for film. I have no doubt that in the near future, the same will happen for video. A common ground on imager resolution will be figured out. My guess is for the majority of TV production 1080p will become the standard . . . I mean why the heck do you need 4k resolution for a 1080i deliverable? It would be like shooting Imax for a sitcom. Talk about overkill. . . . and there’s no chance in hell that the FCC is going to mandate another TV standard any time soon. . . Like it or not, 1080i or 1080p is going to be the standard for decades.

Tim