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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

RED "camcorder" surfaces - Engadget

Everything they do seems strange to me. I don't think they have anyone with real marketing working for them.
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And thank god for that. What the RED team are doing are a marketing departments complete worst nightmare. Here, here to no (conventional) marketing department. Here, here to a product thats self marketable.

To quote the movie heat: "This sh*t sells itself"
 
acehole said:
And thank god for that. What the RED team are doing are a marketing departments complete worst nightmare. Here, here to no (conventional) marketing department. Here, here to a product thats self marketable.

To quote the movie heat: "This sh*t sells itself"
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haha.

And it's not like Jim couldn't traditionally market this thing if he wanted. For proof, just search "Oakley" in Google. :)
 
Funny ...

Funny ...

This is my favorite quote ...

"If I remember correctly (from what, a year ago now?) this thing is going to sell for about $17,000 and will be competitive with the 'current' Hollywood movie cameras that cost upwards of $100,000....

of course...if it's taken them this long to be "almost done" with a prototype, it sounds to me like those $100,000 cameras of a year ago will probably be down in the same price range once the Red finally hits the market"



Too funny...
 
Mark Wilson of Gizmodo
I'm remaining a skeptic until a real production model is in someone's hands.
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Gee you can tell he hasn't been to or even talked to anyone who went to IBC last year. Is it really that hard to believe? Am I one of the few thosuand people with the free mind fit for believing?
 
Charles Darwin was right...Natural Selection of species is having a wide effect on the motion media industry...resulting in the impending extinction of those species that can't or won't evolve, or are too slow to perceive the changing environment around them.
 
I can't hook it up to do videochats? Aw, dude, that thing's teh 5ux0r...

Off to Best Buy....
 
pixelchef said:
I can't hook it up to do videochats? Aw, dude, that thing's teh 5ux0r...

Off to Best Buy....
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I'm pretty sure you can through a video input of any sort.

Interestingly enough, Sony has been R&D'ing HD video conferencing.. Culminating in their $42,000 Ipela HD Webcam. Would be interesting to see the uses of RED in a video conferencing application of some sort.
 
Heh, I jest and poke fun at the l33t d00dz who were trashing RED. :D

Can you imagine 4k video conferencing? Not that I'd want it at the corporate level though (they could tell all too easily that you were nodding off).
 
acehole said:
I'm pretty sure you can through a video input of any sort.

Interestingly enough, Sony has been R&D'ing HD video conferencing.. Culminating in their $42,000 Ipela HD Webcam. Would be interesting to see the uses of RED in a video conferencing application of some sort.
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Don't you know that the whole American culture is full of overkills?
 
pixelchef said:
Heh, I jest and poke fun at the l33t d00dz who were trashing RED. :D

Can you imagine 4k video conferencing? Not that I'd want it at the corporate level though (they could tell all too easily that you were nodding off).
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Yeah, bad idea. Breadcrumbs and eye sleep in 4K. Scary. But you could always use a Promist filter.
 
acehole said:
I'm pretty sure you can through a video input of any sort.

Interestingly enough, Sony has been R&D'ing HD video conferencing.. Culminating in their $42,000 Ipela HD Webcam. Would be interesting to see the uses of RED in a video conferencing application of some sort.
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You think $42K is expensive? I just finished working on a project for cisco that uses HD video conferencing... the entire system costs $300K. It comes with three 65" plasma displays, a conference table, and 3 HD cameras in a small enclosure. The technology is very impressive but its hard to understand the experience until you've sat down and tried it out. Its very creepy seeing people on the screen that look like their across the table but are actually thousands of miles away. If you use the link watch out for the CEO popup.
 
Good Heavens !
When this becomes commonplace, where will the ugly people work ?

Interesting, Curt. Thanks for that.
Did you guys do the presentation vid ?
 
Nope, I did the engineering for the display structure and the tables... It was tricky getting all the images on the screens to look like they were really across the table, we spent close to a year in development figuring out the camera angles and usability aspects of the system. The lighting was a huge undertaking as well... They had Janusz Kaminski come in to help lock down the final details. Lots of fun though.

Cisco actually has stated that the technology will get cheaper, the $300K system will be closer to $10K in a few years.
 
HD over the internet

HD over the internet

HD (720p) is gaining some ground in the videoconferencing and security industries. A couple of Austin based companies I know that are involved in these applications are Lifesize and Covi ( www.lifesize.com and www.covihd.com )

The big problem is bandwidth usage. Although Cisco would love to sell you brand new routers etc, using 2 - 5 Mbps per stream is a non-starter for most corporate network managers. The acceptable alternative - encoding in real time to create a decent quality 500Kbps stream - is a very tough problem to solve.
 
Yeah, cisco loves to sell the entire backbone with their systems, one time I remember Chambers said that he loves high bandwith games and video... it helps sell routers :) The telepresense system for Cisco uses up 4 Mbps per screen so you need a hefty connection to run the 3-up model.
 
robbo said:
Good Heavens !
When this becomes commonplace, where will the ugly people work ?
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Behind facial masks will be a good starting point, I guess. (LOL)
 
Yeah - well - I know right now I have start working on my virtual self !
Anyone got a good app ?

rob - does not use a web cam for fear of ... well,
I have to face myself every am.
It ain't pretty.
 
robbo said:
Good Heavens !
When this becomes commonplace, where will the ugly people work ?
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