Frank Gothmann
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We never had anything rejected with Google for the Play store. Still, there will only be a max of 10 VOD outlets in the end, compared to thousands of physical stores now. And a book store, used book store, library etc also carries other value in our culture than just a place where you buy/rent. All that will be gone with digital.
For iTunes: the worst about it is the bullying that extends to all areas. They only accept Prores. Why? There is no enterprise level encoder out there than can only ingest Prores. No other VOD supplier accepts only one format. It’s one thing if a company in a certain segment tries to sell specific hardware but Apple wants to be computer/mobile/entertainment hardware/film-tv-book-music-comic distributor/software/world-domination company and they go out of their way to force anything without an Apple logo on it to not be usable on the preparation and consumption side. They are much, much worse than Microsoft ever was in the old days.——
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That’s the theory, the reality is very different. You’d bring your project to the market and it’s accepted or rejected, if it’s the latter you search and you may find someone who is specialised in or just “gets” what you do.
In the monopolized VOD scenario, the big player has the say.
Examples: we were prepping some sex comedies (American Pie style) for iTunes. In our country the have the equivalent of a PG13 rating. Mild stuff.
Apple rejected it because they consider it semi-porn. It’s non of their f****g business to decide such things, they’re not making the laws.Old tv stuff that only survived on analog tape: rejected because quality isn’t up their standards.
The list goes on and on, prepping stuff for iTunes is hell and they have no clue about the reality of film distribution and asset availability.
It’s not for them to decide on content or quality matters, it’s for the distributor who bought the rights. Apple is just the store that sells them, same as any store where you buy your goods. If one doesn’t carry the title, others will. But with only two or three players in the VOD endgame your choices are seriously limited and they can and will influence the market of what goes out there and in what shape or form.
From a consumer’s point of view: want to watch something that a) isn’t available in your country at all b) might be censored d) might not have the audio or subtitles or extras you want. No go with VOD cause you can only buy in your country of residence. From Amazon etc. I can order discs from anywhere in the world.——
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VOD may be a convenient alternative to physical rental in the same way a tv dinner is a convenient alternative to a home cooked meal. In the long run I consider it to be one of the most destructive things to film as an art form (same applies to music, books and news magazines). It devaluates everything, eliminates the distribution middle men who sort out content that should have never been made in the first place plus it monopolizes distribution and access in a way that is seriously harmful to our culture in general.
The whole thing is a very complex subject matter and it’s effects are only starting to show. Unfortunately nobody thinks about these things when new technology is thrown to the masses as long as it generates a buck.
Physical media will be around for a long, long time though because there are enough people out there who care and who don’t just want to consume and then throw it away like a used kleenex.——
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Tim,
the numbers seem to be pretty much the same everyhwere, also for the US:
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1105030 per cent up in Q1 2013.
Our clients tell us they want screeners only on DVD precisely because of the reasons I have given in my original post, and we are serving a lot of big and small distributors here.
[TImothy Auld] “I posed the question because I really don’t have a clue as to what the answer is. The numbers I read in the trades seem to be contradictory. I do seriously doubt that the reason I’m only getting SD screeners has anything to do with the fact that distributors are afraid that pirates will put out HD versions. Most folks wouldn’t have the bandwidth to watch it in HD anyway. Which brings us to VOD and on that point I completely agree. VOD is a clusterf**k that can be any resolution at anytime depending on a variety of circumstances.
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We are working for the German market, too. While DVD has a wider user base by approx factor 2.3 in that year, the market shrunk in 2012 by 9 per cent while BD sales grew by almost 30 per cent. For 2013 those numbers are predicted to be even substantially higher.
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Not sure what you mean with consumer acceptance but we are an authoring house that authors a lot of feature films on blu-ray and the sales numbers shared with us by our client are actually quite good. BD sales are still rising year to year, contrary to what some people want to tell you in light of VOD. And I sure hope it stays like that, not just because it’s our business but because vod sucks (and it sucks even more to prep content for vod, especially for Apple and the iTunes store which is a living hell).
Regarding your screeners, most people simply prefer sending out screeners on DVD because it’s quicker, easier, cheaper and also because some are worried their unreleased HDcontent may end up somewhere on the web. Whenever we have to prep screeners for press etc. it is almost always on DVD for precisely those reasons.——
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No math. Delock is a German company and you can get those cables in several European online stores.
In fact, they are even more expensive than I thought.
30m will cost you 2.700 dollars.
Go grab them while their hot.https://www.bpm-media.de/en/Sales/ENG-Live-Production/Cables/Thunderbolt-Cable/Delock-Cable-Thunderbolt-optical-male-male-30-m-black::360652.html
[Keith Koby] “I would suspect that the fiber cost is closer in line to expensive 10 Gbe fiber plus extra costs for the fancy rubber around the outside. So start with 10Gbe rated fiber and then pad and then figure out how much the transceivers cost…
“Which is why we went with 10GB via CAT6a for our shared storage. 30m copper cost you 20 dollars.
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[Gorazd Koncar] “These cables are thunderblot 2 compatible. You can buy two 30m cables
for the cost of just one ATTO 10GB or Intel 10GB Ethernet card.
“I don’t think so. The price of ONE of those 30m cables is over 2100 dollars.
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Doing fine, thanks for asking Keith. Having a peek in here every now and then.
I think you’ll see rates of around 1200 with TB2 on average, not much higher. It’s still PCIe 4x at it’s core and this is pretty much what initial demos of TB2 raids peaked at.
Which, of course, is very fast and sufficient for most people.[Keith Koby] “Hey Frank! what’s happening? Long time man!
A “little birdie” has told me that it is possible to saturate the 20 Gb t-bolt pipe with the 8 sled box. I didn’t get confirmation of the type of drives or stripe. I would imagine it’s got to be raid0.
20 Gbs = 2560 MBs
There has to be some overhead though.
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You’d get that with any decent 8x HBA as long as it’s sitting in an 8x slot. Even with only 8 6G drives an an Areca card in an 8x slot you’re getting beyond 1100 in Raid 6 mode.
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