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Yay! Another HD Format! Just what we need!
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[walter biscardi] “New Hi-Def standard”
=oxymoron
LOL!
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[Jerry Alto] “If its confusing for us whats it like for the consumer?! “
[Jerry Alto] “HD looked like it was finally going to make the big push into the home.”
I had a buddy of mine that just bought a nice plasma for his house. He got it home and tried to hook it up and did an okay job (he determined his ins and outs fairly correct). He called an HD service provider and had them come out and give him a new box to decode the HD signal and he paid for this installation. He is now charged more per month for this service and I will reiterate that he paid for installation. He called me because something was just not sitting right with him when he watched his panel. He explained that his HD channels were letterboxed and I immediately told him that something wasn’t set up correctly. I went over to his house last night and realized that he wasn’t getting HD to his nice new plasma. He was getting a horizontal squashed image that appeared to be in overscan (I could see the timecode running at the top of the supposedly beautiful HD picture) I had him call the service provider and they sent him to the service menu of his professionally installed box to switch the component output from 480p to 1080i. Totally ridiculous. Why did he pay and waste a day waiting for someone to come out and ‘professionally install’ his new HD box? After we switched the output, he now knew what digitally encoded, copper delivered broadcast HD looked like. His wife thanked me profusely. He was definitely pleased with the picture, but not extremely happy with the overall HD experience. He mentioned something about pulled wool in relation to his eyes. If only all the world’s problems were this simple.
Jeremy
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Calling this a new format is a stretch. Everyone can relax. Don’t let the fancy acronymn fool you. It’s just a DVD burner. That’s IT! It records h264 video to a blank DVD. These discs can be read by any computer with a DVD-Rom drive. It’s obviously intended for consumers to watch on their computers, copy it to their iPods, share on mySpace, etc. I’m sure quicktime and windows media players will support the file format right away (if they don’t already). So nobody has to buy anything new should a client show up with a stack of these things.
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I was at the Dallas XDCam tour showing the XDCam system running with FCP. This question came up and as I understood the answer, AVCHD is a consumer format aimed at encoding on media for playback in the home. Not a production format. Basically another codec to render to for output. (and probably new license fees for Sony and Panasonic)
Karl Newman
Karl Newman Productions
Dallas, Texas
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Im so tired of all the marketing and different formats for HD media….its maddening….and most of it is just hyped way more than it should be….ever feel like your being had?
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