Red Ray

[Mike Prevette]

Jaw = Droped

 

[Andrew Thomas]

The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD.

Excuse me for being highly skeptical of this claim. Of all the things to come out of RED, this is probably the most unbelievable. Prove me wrong fellas :bleh:

 

[Nils Ruinet]

The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD.

Wait...:w00t:
You mean like in (much much much) more efficient than H264 ?
Is that even possible ?

Wow. Sony's really gonna hate you.
You just killed BluRay !h34r:

 

[Justin K Phillips]

I'm really curious to see how this magical new codec will handle grain/random noise.

 

[Steven-Marc C.]

That means we can create media to be read in Redray with any currently available dual-layer DVD burner?

 

[Adrian T.]

That's about 50K per 4K frame!? Are you sure?

 

[Craig Harding]

So here are the things I'd want to know:

1. The blurb says:
"* PLAYS 4K, 2K, 1080P, 720P AND SD FROM RED DISC AND RED EXPRESS
* ALSO PLAYS NATIVE RAW R3D FILES FROM COMPACT FLASH"

Are those mutually exclusive? Or when the Red One supports 1080p RGB recording to Red Drive or CF, can the Red Ray play that back from the CF?

2. Can I plug in a Red Drive (powered from the Red Ray) and play back Redcode Raw or 1080p RGB directly?

3. Will it support the camera "look" files for R3D playback?

4. How much?

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD.

WTF!?!?:w00t:

This is major news.

Is this codec going to be available any time soon ?

 

[IAN SUN]

C'mon Stuart... This must be some kinda scam. :clown2:

 

[Joseph Hutson]

C'mon Stuart... This must be some kinda scam. :clown2:

Two years ago, ALL of Red was a scam.

 

[Craig Ryan]

Careful gentlemen..it is still April...lol. Although I do admire the potential irony and pun in "REDRAY" if they are using standard DVD laser technology.

Also, are we going to be able to get RE-re-remastered 4k versions of Star Wars on Redray??

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Excuse me for being highly skeptical of this claim. Of all the things to come out of RED, this is probably the most unbelievable. Prove me wrong fellas :bleh:

2 Hours of 4K fitting into 50 GB? That's only 5 times more compressed than Redcode 28. Redcode 5.6 anyone?

 

[Bing Bailey]

RED RAY is based on DVD9 blanks , not bluray, so its 9GB not 50GB. how they'll stuff 2hours of 4k footage onto a 9gb dvd I've no idea. it'll have to be the most sophisticated and amazing compression ever invented.

that information was posted by mike curtis after talking to TED

 

[Steven-Marc C.]

2 Hours of 4K fitting into 50 GB? That's only 5 times more compressed than Redcode 28. Redcode 5.6 anyone?

It's much worse/better than that! A single-sided dual layer DVD like Stuart mentionned is only 9 GB. So that would be 2 hours of 4K fitting into 9 GB. Redcode... 1 ? :help:

 

[Vincent Rice]

This unit MUST absolutely have an RS422 or 232 control port. PLEASE! There's a HUGE market awaiting for a cheap controllable HD+ media player.

 

[antiquaeuropa]

Check out this info: http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/mcurtis/story/red_ray_2_hour_4k_playback_for_under_1000from_a_burnable_dvd/

Holy crap! I am quite upset about the Scarlet and the Epic announcements, but hot damn this RedRay is one awesome deal.

Too good to be true! :shifty:

On normal DVD's! :w00t:

 

[Craig Ryan]

lol man first it was the HD-DVD adopters, now everyone went out and went Blu Ray..when now we can just use these *picks up a spire of DVD-Rs* and get 4 *******K!!!!!!

 

[Luke Boyce]

So will this downrez then? If I compress my footage to the 4k Red Ray codec, but play that footage on a 1080p monitor, I'm assuming it will downrez right?

 

[Jaime Vallés]

The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD.

It uses regular dual-layer DVDs?!?!?!?! How is this even possible? Stewart, are you on cocaine? Absolutely bonkers!

I want it now!!! :gun:

 

[David M]

The 4K RED-RAY uses standard "red" laser DVD media. The delivery codec is so efficient we can provide more than 2 hours of 4K plus audio on one dual layer single sided DVD.

So you can have 4K cinema projection of most movies from a single dual-layer DVD?

How much 2K time can you get?