[Ismaelr]

the samy’s camera booth at DV expo promised delivery of a HXV200 when the camera comes out in early 2006. their pricing was around $400 or $500 off the list price. panasonic is making the camera available at multiple resellers including LA shops moviola, birns and sawyer, and promax.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

most likely the same full page add appeared in the los angeles times. panasonic is very confident that they have a revolutionary product.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

the most likely show for panasonic to premiere the HVX200 is going to be interBEE 2005 in japan around 17 november 2005. i hear that the camera will make a north american appearance at the GVExpo 2005 around 1 december 2005.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

nate is right, that currently only ATTO technologies and SNS have iSCSI initiators for mac OS X. the OEM/partner companies for both units (i think) are ardis technologies and wasabi systems respectively.

for about a month, i’ve been in contact with ATTO, and they are more than willing to get you a 30 day evaluation/test bed system on consignment for either their FC or ultra 160 SCSI bridge/iSCSI xtend SAN initiator kit. send ATTO an e-mail: sls@attotech.com. i wanted to have some benchmark numbers, but my storage array of choice has been delayed. i’m waiting for the 10 GbE d-link xtack storage unit.

in today’s market, prices are all over the map. for a 2 GB SAN, your budget can be anywhere from $3000 to $16000 for the array. ATTO kits cost around $3000 for the ultra160 SCSI kit and $6500 for the FC kit (with 5 seats). i hope prices will fall after macworld SF 2006.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

Your question is on the expected DVCPRO HD data rates. here is a summary table:

DATA RATE	FORMAT
17.1 MB/s	DVCPRO HD 720p/60
8.5 MB/s	DVCPRO HD 720p/30
6.8 MB/s	DVCPRO HD 720p/24
17.1 MB/s	DVCPRO HD 1080i/60
8.5 MB/s	DVCPRO 50
4.3 MB/s	DVCPRO DV

practically any onboard hard drive can handle this type of single stream data rate. where a laptop may fail is in multiple streams or in capacity. you’ll need 60 GB for every hour of footage, so you may max out your internal or external drive capacity very fast.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

IBC 2005 will be the release for the AG-HVX200 working prototype. i hope our european cow members will scrutinize this rig and get some sample footage. since it’s all digital, it’s easily downloaded. read the full panasonic press release announcement for IBC.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

at this time in SAN, all possibilities are worth exploring. i know of a few NAS devices from netapp or bluearc using advanced virtualization schemes delivering data nearly as fast as direct attached storage, and you have to pay a hefty premium. in this thread this is not even a discussion of Xserve RAID. it used to be that SAN cost something. that was before netgear announced the storage central SC101. when this box ships, it will allow two PATA drives to chain to a network all for $129 retail list (bring your own drives). this is going to be a whole lot less than an Xserve RAID and Xsan. it will use technology from zetera for advanced IP storage. the future is cheap.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/

[Ismaelr]

good to know that mac OS X is not going to be an orphan, left only to the Xsan step-mother. i forsee great alernatives to FC SAN, and i will investigate this solution you mention. i hope to see it all validated on mac OS X tiger soon.

ismael rosales

chief information architect
https://www.cloakmedia.com/