Hey Mark, if you don't want to post NAB notes to your page, or that super old red.com camera thread, feel free to post them as comments here. I'd love to hear about anything interesting you see, or just reports on the general atmosphere. You know, you could do it in all your spare time. :-)
- jim 4-25-2006 11:31 pm

Lots of H.264. The technology is getting smaller, fast. We still have teh awesome pictures.

Pretty good crowds overall. Video tape has a smaller and smaller footprint at the show every year. Analog lives in the margins.

More later ...
- mark 4-26-2006 12:12 am


Is this what you guys have been talking about? Or is it just the word "red" that's jogging my memory?
- tom moody 4-26-2006 3:41 am


That's it. The images are of the camera body with the "cage". The cage is designed with a zillion mounting points, for lights, accessories, etc., which is why all the holes.

The idea with the camera body is to emulate film cameras. With a high end film camera, you can replace the back end (storage) or front end (optics), and keep the body in use for years and years.

One the front, they accept super 35 or 16 mm lenses. They'll have their own, or accept standard lenses. On the back they have a variety options ranging from "raw" unprocessed sensor output (12+ bit resolution, RBG, 11 Mpixels) coming out on to-be-define high speed interface, to lightly compressed video stored on removeable hard disk or flash media.

With 16 mm optics, they use a subset of the imaging array, and can go up to 120 frames per second. With super 35 optics, the support up to 4530 x 2540 at 60p.

Basically, it's a no-holds-barred camera build about a sensor with amazing specs. If they can pull this off, it will be very disruptive. Mass production in about a year.

- mark 4-26-2006 12:45 pm


Mobile video, mostly H.264, but some in MS formats, is picking up. HHI has technology that can put 30 channels of low rez video (for devices in the class of Sony PSP and Apple video iPod) over a single digital TV terrestrial channel. In Europe they'll be able to mix traditional TV services and mobile TV services over the same carrier. The ATSC and FCC aren't quite so advanced. Verizon et al may step into that void.


- mark 4-26-2006 12:56 pm





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