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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 :)

EPIC-X UPDATE

David Rasberry said:
I would love to see a resurgence of the coffee house, art house, college, museum circuits that existed in the 60's and 70's showing mostly indie films in 16mm. Relatively low cost digital projection setups and a reasonably secure means of distributing and protecting content could make this a viable alternative again.
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Just like the fantastic Kino Xenix in Zurich. I used to love that place.
http://www.xenix.ch/
 
Cinecycle Toronto
 
David Rasberry said:
I would love to see a resurgence of the coffee house, art house, college, museum circuits that existed in the 60's and 70's showing mostly indie films in 16mm. Relatively low cost digital projection setups and a reasonably secure means of distributing and protecting content could make this a viable alternative again.
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@ Mark

These venues should already be legal to exhibit movies.

Mark B. said:
Most U.S. cities have zoning laws prohibiting residential property from running commercial movie theaters. You can usually play movies for free, but if the viewing audience is too large that too can get a home-owner into hot water. Plus, there are problems if the screen is visible to neighbors or public roads, especially if you are playing movies with mature content. From that perspective, indoor theaters are the way to go.

If someone had the money, they might be able to battle their way up the court system to argue that playing large-screen movies, even for profit, is an important component of free speech, thereby exempting that activity from zoning law restrictions.
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But Mark, Good points.

On the other hand, cities have limits and outside those limits, at least in my surrounding area, no such laws exist. Of course, I was only half-serious about a drive-in movie on the barn-side thing, but am completely serious about the mom & pop theatres. An inexpensive theatre could be built to serve communities or even neighborhoods if the projection was inexpensive and good enough to do justice to the high quality 4k content. Or consider this: A church group, somewhere in the South as I recall, made their own movie... and it was HUGE! If every church in America had its own 4k projector and there was sufficient suitable content, that's a ginormous market. And the Masons! And swinger groups! And witches covens!

All I'm saying is: make it good enough and affordable enough, and RED Ray + 4k projectors will fly off the warehouse docks.
 
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Omar Kassim said:
EGYPT IS WAITING FOR THE EPIC REVOLUTION
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I don't know. The last one looked pretty Epic to me.
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Elsie N said:
@ Mark

These venues should already be legal to exhibit movies.



But Mark, Good points.

On the other hand, cities have limits and outside those limits, at least in my surrounding area, no such laws exist. Of course, I was only half-serious about a drive-in movie on the barn-side thing, but am completely serious about the mom & pop theatres. An inexpensive theatre could be built to serve communities or even neighborhoods if the projection was inexpensive and good enough to do justice to the high quality 4k content. Or consider this: A church group, somewhere in the South as I recall, made their own movie... and it was HUGE! If every church in America had its own 4k projector and there was sufficient suitable content, that's a ginormous market. And the Masons! And swinger groups! And witches covens!

All I'm saying is: make it good enough and affordable enough, and RED Ray + 4k projectors will fly off the warehouse docks.
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Zoning laws in the U.S. are why you have sprawl and why anyone on foot feels like an idiot in most places in the U.S.
 
Rob, not sure what your point is?

If it is a criticism of our mobile society, then I think you mistake the need to get from one place to another as being due to zoning laws. New York for instance is a very different animal than L.A. I don't think zoning could change the fact that it takes a long time to get from one side to another of the city, much less the surrounding small towns, on foot. I think instead of feeling like an idiot, you would feel dependent... on a rental car, bus or taxi or Limo.

If you are saying that there should be no allowance for building outside of a city limit, well, most of us think the govt. already interferes too much in our daily lives.

I'm guessing you mean something entirely different from what I'm interpreting, but I'm unable to decipher.

Clarification, please. Maybe I'll even agree with you once I better understand.
 
Michael T. said:
Hey Guys,

This is a Camera forum, none political talk please?

Thanks

M
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More like socio-economic discussion, but your point is taken. It's just that when a thread has run its course for the original idea, it tends to grab oxygen from any source to survive.

edit: It's not just a camera forum... it's an all-things-RED forum.
 
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Jarred Land said:
the train has finally been put back on the tracks and we will be able to begin shipping EPIC-X cameras at the end of August with full production in the first 2 weeks of September.
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Hi Jarred,

could we please get an update, is the train still on tracks?
 
I have my ear to the train tracks.. Got my penny ready and waiting to be flattened. And by penny I mean bank account
 
I think that people waiting on the fence to buy an Epic X can learn a release date when it's released. I think that people who have had a $5000 deposit paid to RED 16 months ago deserve more of a schedule.
 
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