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Red Ray 2009

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Were you at IBC

Were you at IBC

Zac C said:
Can anyone tell me why you claim everyone has forgotten about RED?
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If not I was expecting a lot of RED at the show and trawling through many halls I was only aware of 1 dead EPIC camera.
 
RED had the announced presence at IBC.

Must say that I read your blog, and found it the most hilariously funny thing I've read about RED for a while. Really gave me a good time.

I am also most gratefull for finally being acredited with an engineering degree, but I am not sure if I'll put it on my CV. I'll have to think about that.

I wasn't able to leave a comment, though.

Thanks!

Gunleik
 
Over the last couple of years, a number of companies have decided not to have a booth on the show floor. This includes major trade shows like CES, NAB, CEDIA, and IBC.

I enjoyed RED's offsite at NAB this year much more than the booth they had two years ago. There are pros and cons to this approach.
 
Small minds !

Small minds !

Sadly some of you are just small minded and lacking in IQ. I have been a big RED supporter on my blog since it started but latterly with lots of talk about cameras and delay after delay it seems RED has lost a lot of it's enthusiasm. I don't understand this mind set that if you dare to criticise you are deemed a RED DEMON.
 
What are you talking about, I've had my Red Ray for almost a year now. Where have you been? I got it the same day I got my jetpack and flying car.

I agree, they should probably update the website. However, I would rather them stay busy making the Epic and Scarlet than update a website.
 
WEB DESIGNERS

WEB DESIGNERS

Eh I think you will find Jim has employed a team of web designers but that aside having a RED RAY available 2009 on your front page for 9 months does not instil confidence in the rest of the product range. If you don't care about your home page...the first window to your product...what else don't you care about !!!
 
I feel like the less a small company updates their website the more they must care about their products, since they are too busy working on their service than the website. It's a lot like how I view Chinese food menus, the more typos the better the food.
 
Philip Johnston said:
Eh I think you will find Jim has employed a team of web designers
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LOL...

There is no team of web designers at RED. The guys at RED are busy doing other things. But your point is valid, they really do need a dedicated web guy. An actual team may be overkill.

Philip, I think the reason why people are abrasive toward you is because of your blog. You missed a lot of key facts in your mentioning of RED's web site and presence at IBC. This forum is RED's real outlet into the world, not their own web site. Strange as it may seem, that's just the way it is.

As for RED cameras at IBC, there were many. I wasn't there, but I know of several companies using them at their booths and in their displays and I've seen plenty of pictures to confirm that.

Small-mindedness is not what you're seeing here. You're coming into RED's house and asking questions that any self-respecting RED fanboy already knows the answer to. If you are indeed following RED, you would know that they have not lost their enthusiasm, but rather the opposite. It's true that much of their development has gone silent over the past year or more. But the competition is paying attention now and they can't be as freely open. They made some judgement errors in announcing future products. As the products evolved, they became something else and longer development times were needed. This is not out of the ordinary for any complicated electronics development, let alone something as complex as the Epic camera. But most development companies keep the product under wraps until it's closer to release, rather than announcing it once it's become a cohesive idea on a drawing board.

I think that's one thing that has attracted many to RED, their openness right from the beginning. But it's a double-edged sword. People all too often try to make plans around announced products and it can sometimes backfire on them.

And while the delays seem perpetual in nature, you also have to consider that RED has still shipped nearly 8000 RED One cameras, most of which are out there working every day. These cameras are being used to shoot everything from no-budget music videos and short films to Hollywood blockbusters. To ship that many cameras in 3 years is truly an achievement for a cinema-camera system. That is something Arri, Aaton, Silicon Imaging, etc.. have not accomplished. Arri Alexa is selling like crazy, but still not at a pace that will rival the RED One in the same amount of time.

Epic is getting closer every day. It will be worth the wait. Then we'll see how Scarlet shapes up, which should follow very soon after.
 
Jeff, I agree with you that for insiders this forum is RED's face. But to those on the outside interested in RED the website is THE portal, as it is for every company these days. I found the website about two weeks before I found out about the forum, which I did by phoning RED and talking to someone about the RED ONE camera.

FWIW, I do web design as well as image making and would be honored to help if so desired.
 
All other things said in this thread aside, I also agree very much that it does not look good to have the "2009" on the main page.
 
Focus

Focus

Anyone care to tell me why RED are advertising RED RAY for 2009 on their home page and it's now September 2010 ???

Eh I think you will find Jim has employed a team of web designers but that aside having a RED RAY available 2009 on your front page for 9 months does not instil confidence in the rest of the product range. If you don't care about your home page...the first window to your product...what else don't you care about !!!
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Philip, just one click on that front page would reveal this now wouldn't it... ?

http://www.red.com/redray


It's pretty obvious we've focussed on delivering a raft of (usually free) system performance upgrades to our worldwide customer base.

http://reduser.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=31


Thank you.
 
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