Michael Anderson
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Hi Paul,
You might have been thinking about our 4Gigabit Fibre Channel product line. Bart is right, the adapters are not cheap. The dual port Atto Celerity retails for about $1200. However, it is very fast, and really is shipping.
Best Regards,
Michael H. Anderson
Chief Engineer
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Hey Scott,
It’s all really really interesting stuff. I remember reading about people who believed television would displace movies, because people could stay home and watch them. But the “movie experience” still only happens in a theatre.
I didn’t see the presentation, but I’ve heard from a few people that it was nothing short of amazing. The next level of entertainment might well be digital media direct to theatres, however it gets there.
I guess we’ll all find out together.
Best Regards
Michael H. Anderson
Chief Engineer
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OK, dumb question of the day.
As I do the math, this (beautiful) projector is using 35 megabyte files (10 bit DPX) for each frame. This works out to be about 4.5TB for a 90 minute feature, fully uncompressed.
4.5TB is about 12 400GByte disk drives. 500GB is shipping to OEMs now, and 1TB drives are right around the corner.
Given the endless debates about the artifacts introduced by compression, my dumb question is: Why should anybody bother to compress this kind of material? That would end the debate, and 6 to 12 disk drives have two compelling attributes – they cost less than film, and they can be reused. Quite a few times. Maybe for years.
Comments? I must be missing something…
Michael H. Anderson
Chief Engineer
Huge Systems