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I’d say that to get 3rd party interested about cf/sd card adapter to p2 would need something like 6 figures of sold p2 cameras to have wide enough target group.
This of course won’t happen if Panny isn’t going to release consumer version of p2 camera, which of course won’t happen if p2 cards price won’t dramatically decrease.
And so on…
Or maybe there might be some company who makes “broadcast” equipment, that would make a small amount of adapters, but then they would also cost a huge amount a piece.
How much would you pay for that adapter? $500? $1000?

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[matthew Romanis] “It’s going to be good to eventually see one of the six engineering models doing the world tour appear down here.”

Yep, there’s no hurry. 50 Hz version might be out in February…

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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “HD-SDI would only be useful if you had a RAID that would handle 1.2GBps of data.”

And because this kind of RAId would cost less than one 8GB p2 card, there would be great demand for that.
And that’s propably the reason why canon is offering hd-sdi-i/o.

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[Rodrigo Lizana] “Q”

There’s lots of xdcams out there in rugged eng-work. And rumors so far have been that they are more reliable that tape based systems have been.
So of course you can compare different technologies and their reliability.
Getting the data to comparison might be a bit hard though.

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I see nothing really surprising in holographic memory or its schedule.
We’ve had dvd(+-r(w))’s couple of years, next couple of years brd+hd-dvd-drives and after that holographic systems.
Archiving to solid state will not happen for a decade at least.
Btw, what is p2’s shelf life?

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Just out of curiosity, how many of us has been marking the writedate to all burned cd’s last ten years and then begun to refresh his/her piles and shelfs of cd’s?
Did somebody compiled many cd’s to one dvd?
Or just made duplicate cd’s?
Is it easy or pain in the *ss?

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Propably everybody knows this:

https://www.eidomedia.com/hdve/ziess_fuji.htm

and that was just an old and cheap fujinon sd lens.
After seeing that I was so convinced about the quality of these super hyper non-detachable hd lenses, that you really have to give proof that any of them is better than even the stock lens of 100u (which is of course the cheapest detachable lens in the market today…).

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[JeremyG] “Plenty of time to get through a normal project.”

Ok, 30 years is quite impressive if it’s somewhere near truth.
Even cd-r’s are not considered to last more than 20 years in archiving.
And that’s what this is all about, not getting through a project, but to archive it.

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And ultrium’s datarate is over 200Mbps…

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Another possibility is LTO3 (like ultrium) 400GB to $100 tape.
And why not to use xdcam’s technology: PD data drive and disks.
More reliable than brd/hd-dvd for archiving and much more reliable than hdd archiving.
Rev is still a bit like hdd, so how long shelf life iomega promises?