Ivan Kacer
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Beside there will be further development in near future, so you don’t have to worry about 30 years.
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There is good article about iomega Rev on https://broadcastengineering.com
From main page go search Iomega.
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I think Iomega Rew Pro drive using media discs or Pro compact flash memory cards could be one of solution at end of this year at cost of Euro 500. Disc have 35Gb, 100mb/sec HD recodrd/play capacity with audio and timecode information at cost of Euro 70. Pro CF cards you get at variety of prices all around photo world.
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Well, with yours stunt show, what you do when XDCAM disc run out of its capacity? You have to stop filming and change disc. Same as with good old tape. With P2 you can keep filming presumably you have spare P2 cards. If you or production have an assistant, he or she can download data to portable storage while you still keep filming and not missing part of the action. In HD it takes 1 min per 1GB of data to download. Then you can re-use same card and still continue filming and not missing part of action. As cameras becoming more and more software driven, there will be always differences between brands and as you know software can be always upgraded. I do not think anybody will be 100% winner. It’s like NLE reality this days. To come to Thomson Infinity, there is choice of disc or compact flash memory to record on, so you have both of the sides covered and not to mention quality of the camera, but you have to still stop recording to reload media.
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Maybe some rental places may look into this possibility in future and have set of P2 cards for hire similar to set of filters in this days. While P2 cards are expensive for some productions or cameramen it could be the way to have temporary enough memory power for location shoots without investing tousands to buy them and then in couple of months degrade their value because of new development and declining prices of more powerful P2 type of cards. I bet it will happen soon there is reasonable amount of P2 cameras out there.
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It will be better then HDV but not equivalent to HD. I think this camera is aimed to fill the space between HDV and HD. It may be Sony’s solution for biger camcorder. Instead building similar HDV one like upcoming JVC with better camera head (2/3″ CMOS CCDs and true 1920x1080i) still using tapes, Sony XDCAM use blue disc and have variable compression option up to 35mb/sec on 1/2″ IT CCDs. All depends about price and quality results if that will be serious player in war of formats.
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But, that is not P2 HD megapixel camera. Still quite nice standard DVCPRO 25/50 and DV camera.
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It is the same story as Infinity “camera is coming” but Thomson already put the price of Infinity under Euro 20000.
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I think you misunderstand point I’m not talking about 1/3″ CCD but 2/3″CCD camera like HDX 400 with recording on P2, not on tapes and in 1080i is 100mb/sec full frame and not with GOPs.
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Beside XDCAM HD maximum quality is 35mb/sec and is largely compressed. Concidering magic work of codecs XDCAM HD is better to HDV (19mb/sec), but not even close to Panasonic 100mb/sec and less compressed HD.
Also question will be about its price.