Rennie Klymyk
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Does anybody know how to tell the date of manufacture on these monitors? I hate the thought of my replacement being a few years older than my original. It seems looser on the pivot.
If I buy a 30″ I’ll be checking it in the store before going home with it.
[JeremyG] “Dell has a 30 now too.”
From what I understand Apple and Dell use the same lcd’s so it’s price, performance and warranty between them. I just looked at the Dells, they have a 3 year warranty included and it’s called “advance exchange” so it looks like they send the replacement before you return your monitor.
The price is right $1444.00 on the dell web site. I paid over that a year ago for my 23″ These things are at least getting affordable. Am I getting this right? The Dell doesn’t include a dvi cable? (The old upsell) You can add an 8′ for $120.00 or a 12′ for $100.00. (one thing for sure, their forfathers were’t the ones trading long guns to the 1st peoples for furs because it’s cheaper to get the longer one!)
I must say as someone who has applied flat black gaffers tape to the front bezels of my monitors since the days of beige, my 23″ included, I like the black finish on the Dell much better but is it plastic? Lacie and Sun have been using dark light absorbing finishes on their monitors for the last decade and it is less eye strain.
The Dell has flash card reader ports for 9 types of cards and 2 usb ports but no firewire. The Mac has 2 usb and 2firewire 400 ports. I think I like detachable power cables over the hard wired ones. I’m thinking of the problem with one of my replacement units, touch the cable and the picture frazzels. At least with the detachable ones if someone tripped on a cable it could just pull out of the socket.
Apple brought us these hi res monitors in the beginning and have just demonstrated they can compete dollar for dollar, lb. for lb. with the new intel workstations but they need to sharpen their pencils to compete with the big bad giant on the flat panels.
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[Chris] “ust go buy (Online $50.00) the newest/fastest/Pioneer DVR-106 or 107 or 108 or whatever”
The latest and greatest is the DVR-111, it is getting better reviews than the 110 although it is not quite as fast and there is the tray issue. It’s dual layer which is a step up from the earlier models.
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My dp 2ghz with the 3 pci-x slots just blew the DVR-107 and I replaced it with a DVR-111. It has a wider end on the front tray though and the top of the tray hit the case of the g5. I took the 2 feet off the bottom of the drive so it sloped down in front and it cleared the opening in the case. When you slide the burner in it now only has the 2 back feet to locl into the lever locks that hold it in place. I put a 1x1x1 inch piece of high density foam on top to support it at the front end for when I move the computer around and it’s been working excellent. It’s a great burner. I also put one in my g4 and it has the same front on ther tray as the old DVR-104 so it bolted right in. Got it at NCIX for 39.99 CNC. http://www.ncix.com
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My dual 2 gig G5 (3 pci-x) just blew it’s original oa7 pioneer drive so I replaced it with a Pioneer 111 which was only $40.00. Runs great now. I had to remove the 2 front feet so it sits down on an angle so the tray will clear the door of the G5 but you still have the 2 back feet to lock into position with the lock lever. $40.00 is cheaper than a service charge the way I see it and it’s the latest and greatest dual layer burner. I bought 2 for that price and put one in my dp g4 too. (replaced the oa4 and it fit right in properly.)
http://www.ncix.com $40.00 CND!
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[tedjac] “I’ve tried both the Sonnet card and the CalDigit card… w/16 500Gb Seagate drive in two 8 bay MacGu”
Cow news droid just announced CalDigit Mac Pro support with free drivers for existing customers on their web site.
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[Ken Nemetchek] “I was really looking forward to watching the trailer, right up to the point where a screen popped up telling me that it’s not a valid link…”
Hey! isn’t this the world wide web? Looks like this link doesn’t work in Canada. I get the same dead link on the apple site. Tried searching the qt trailers but nothing there. Google was over whelming with no current results, I give up.
Congrats regardless Shane!
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Just wanted to stress the extra abillities of the dsr-11.
Mini-DV – PLAY and RECORD (both large and small cassettes)
DVCAM – PLAY and RECORD (both large and small cassettes)
NTSC and PALThe moment a prospective client walks in with one of these formats that your jvc or panasonic deck doesn’t have you will regret not having these capabillities. One job can pay for it. The dsr-11 is an ideal entry level deck because it opens up all these formats for a very reasonable price.
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just came accross this thread on the P2 forum
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=193&postid=861767&pview=t#head
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[kskstudios] ” I guestimated that each 1 hour episode will be cut from nearly 60 hours of material (lot’s of 2 & 3 camera interviews) and if captured at 720p30 would yield roughly 1.62tb of data per episode.”
Given this volume over this much time you would think an investment in a panasonic 1200 or 1400 hd deck would be warrented (providing your client also has one at their end). However useing these figures, when you look at the cost of tape for the 60 hrs of footage you are looking at aproximately $20.00 per 33 min. of footage = $2400.00 in tape costs per episode. 500 GB HDD’s are down to about $200.00 each I’ve heard so the 1.6 tb would fit on 4 drives = $800.00 and there is no logging or real time laying off to tape. If this math is correct you could make a duplicate backup on HDD’s for about $1600.00 as oppossed to
$2400.00 for tape, a 33% savings plus a huge savings in time.60hr. = 120 – 33min. tapes @ $20.00 = $2400.00
1.6 TB = 4 – 500GB HDD’s @ $200.00 = $800.00
1.6 TB = 8 – 500GB HDD’s @ $200.00 = $1600.00 (with duplicate back-up)I haven’t researched these prices but rather fished them off the top of my head as food for thought. Although no one can deny owning one of these decks would be a real asset that’s another $20,000.00 + for the equation.
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I have a firmtek system and I seem to remember reading something about keeping them the same but I think that particularly applies to raided discs. Right now I have a pair of matched 300’s raided and 2 different drives that are jbod style and they work great. Their should be recomendations on the sonnet site.