Emery
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Brian I whole heartedly agree. All we need is a simple interface to a hard drive. $2,000 for a hard drive is ridiculous.
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Settle down, I wasnt using “rape” in the traditional sense. Just trying to emphasize that apple will being using all of their drives and therefore no one else will be able to take advantage of samsungs low price (at least not for a while.) And if you have read my post youd see that i have conceded there is no direct relationship between samsungs low cost CF and P2. Its an overall market thing.
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I wasnt aware SD was invented by Panasonic, that does make things a little different. Ive generally only used CF media. But as you’ve suggested it does put pressure on the “beverage market” in general when there are similar beverages out there for significantly lower price. All of these high capacity/high performance/low price media solutions (weather it be from hitachi, samsung, or anyone else) is good news for P2. Panasonic just wont be able to justify their prices, they will have to stay competitive with market cost and technologies. As far as third party companies making P2 devices goes, yes they will have to pay royalties. Im not very familiar with copy write and patent law but i dont really understand why a company would have to pay royalties for anything. Couldn’t they make a non P2 device that is simply inserted into the P2 data port? Do you have to pay royalties for figuring out what data is coming out of the P2 “data port,” figuring out how to record it and enclosing it inside a device that fits the P2 form factor? What makes P2 P2?
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I see your point Noah but I think the relationship is more closely related to a Coke/Pepsi comparison. I think its only a matter of time before third party companies start making products for this camera. A P2 or P2 like device could be made with compact flash cards. The price of any of the 3 leading solid state media formats (Compact Flash, SD, and Memory Stick) will effects the others. Manufacturers will build their devices to support the format with the best price/performance. Ofcourse there is some politics involved as well but generally this will force the competing memory types to lower their prices and push their production further. Maybe CF/SD is a coke/orange juice comparison but think about how much more coke is sold than orange juice. Yes you still have your oj buyers but it doesnt hold a candle compared to coke. When it comes to the tech industry, manufacturers will adopt the most economic solution, and in this particular situation, the end customer wont even “taste” the difference.
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It certainly will have an impact on the price of P2. Maybe not a direct impact but Apple is drastically driving the price down. Yes they will rape Samsung of every last card but it will force other companies to lower their prices in order to compete in the market. Scale is the number one factor that drives prices down. Sure companies get more efficient with production as well but its really scale that drives prices.
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The press release it indicates it supports windows operating systems but does not mention macs, whats up with that?
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Yes the price does seem a bit steep. For now though its the only “affordable” solution to shooting P2. Thr direct to disc recording will come but atleast we know we can take advantage of P2 at a relatively “affordable” price the moment the camera comes out.
Emery
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Guys I was joking about the DVCPRO HD thing and yes the pdf is pretty straight forward. However, they are not really defining any new technologies, just the implementation of existing ones. That said, I dont think its too long… again, I was joking. 🙂
Emery
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so im reading and thinking these boys put alot of time into this new spec. I could save them all alot of time…
I say make the spec DVCPRO HD running through firewire a powerbook with a G-RAID… problem solved!! 🙂
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OMG its 176 pages long…. thats some spec!