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"Spike" photographed with HVX200 and F900

MMMmmmm.... more "Spike" ~~porn~~ pics. This time, those crafty RED kids took a picture of the much anticipated camera next to an ENG style cam, the F900, and a smaller prosumer cam, the F900. Granted, Spike doesn't exactly have any sort of storage on it's pretty lil' chasse, but that lil' chasse is pretty cool, and pretty small. One could see that hidden away in a small-ish camera bag. Now, if that little camera gets the same results as the footage we've been seeing, we're sure in for a treat!

[Via the illustrious, HDforIndies]

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TV trends of 2007

Filed under: Trends, Business, Gear, Television

My wife says buying an HDTV doesn't count as a New Year's resolution. I argued the point with her for 20 minutes, but she insists I pick something more constructive for '07. After much deliberation, I deiced my resolution for the new year will be to stop setting myself up for failure...and look into a new TV.

Dennis Barker over at Electronic House wrote a great summary of all the latest TV tech we can expect over the new year. According to Barker, we can expect "microdisplays" to bring 1080p into the realm of the common man. DLP and LCoS (AKA D-ILA's awesome cousin,) two rear projection technologies. allow for more affordable 1080p HD with a relatively thin footprint. In other words, they cost less than Plasma or LCD, and don't take up much more space.

Of course, if you are still set on a flat screen, be careful, and get your facts right, as the boundary between the two technologies continues to blur. LCD keeps getting bigger, and better, while the price of Plasma seems to be coming down a bit. For more info about advances in microdisplays, flat panels, and even the old CRT tube, click READ for a link to the complete article

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Filed under: Trends, Editing, Hardware, Post-production

Kids, especially you HVX200 sporting P2-lovers out there, our day is on the horizon: Solid state hard drives are on their way! SanDisk is going to show off their first 32GB flash-based hard drive at CES, and says the drive could be released as early as the first half of this year! The transfer between a P2 card and a flash-based drive would be so minimal, it'd feel virtually instantaneous.

For those of you not up on your geek knowledge, typically the slowest part of a computer has been the spinning discs of magnetic hard drives. Video folks have gotten around the annoyance of those pokey hard drives by chaining them together in RAID arrays. Now, though, the problem could be eliminated almost entirely, with these flash-based drives.

Keep in mind, the drive is supposed to be a laptop drive, so we're not sure exactly how that'll play in a video world, but regardless, we're one step closer to greatness.

[Note: The image is of the Super Talent 8gb laptop flash drive]

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Filed under: Trends, Business, Hardware, Media, DVD, At Home

I originally titled this post "Oh, snap!" because LG's on again off again combo HD-DVD + Blu-Ray player, if released, could save next-gen optical from an untimely demise. Many consumers (including me) have been sitting on the sidelines of the format war waiting for a clear winner, but obviously a combo player would not only be a winner for LG, but retailers might start moving some Blu-Ray and HD-DVD titles off the shelves.

Finally we could see some sort of unification. Please, oh please, LG, don't dash our hopes! And Samsung, we know you're all cozy with Blu-Ray and e'rythang, but throw us a bone and release a dual format player too.

[Via Engadget]

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Filed under: Editing

MacBreak has a great episode, number 36, that you should check out. The guest is Kwesi Collisson, producer of Conversations with other Women. The movie was shot using the Sony CineAlta F900 and ediited with Final Cut Pro. And when you watch this episode, you'll see that there was a whole lot of After Effects action going on too.