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Red Bashing On Forbes Website

Ridiculous. Does the article really matter anyway? I doubt professionals use Forbes as a reference for anything, anyway.
 
In fact, Episode III is the only movie I have ever seen whose picture quality is on par with traditional film.
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*Snicker*

If Canon wins by selling smaller, lighter, and lower-cost cameras, so will Hollywood. From big studios like Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Lions Gate (NYSE: LGF) to Paramount (NYSE: VIA) and the Comcast-owned (NASDAQ: CMCSA) Universal Pictures, studios can always benefit from lower costs.
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I'm speechless...

Yes if a film's rental costs reduce from $1m to $900k I'm sure that $200m + $300m marketing budget will see a new era of profitability!
 
Wow. Do you think everything else on Forbes is as terribly researched as this one?

Kinda makes you want to research adopting an investing strategy contrary to everything they (or at least Benzinga, who wrote the article) suggest - might be profitable :)

I like the C300 more than most, and even I find this rather ridiculous!

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
Bruce Allen said:
Wow. Do you think everything else on Forbes is as terribly researched as this one?
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Most people don't realize how manipulated financial information is. Even to this day people don't realize how mantras like "buy and hold" and "mutual funds are safe" and the belief in the ridiculous mutual fund ratings are (ridiculous because they're rated by a company owned by the company who owns the mutual funds) are all as much advertising as "magically delicious" is to Lucky Charms.

There's some good info out there and there have definitely been some decent articles even in Forbes - but everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

It's just like despite what researchers say every year again and again - that the bad affects of alcohol far outweigh any benefits and all the benefits could be gained from eating the right fruits anyway... but magazines are fueled by alcohol ads, so you always get these articles about how red wine is good for your health. So much so that people start to believe it as fact. Any magazines with advertising are going to be like this, a good deal of the articles are going to be obligatory to gain advertising.
 
People here probably shouldn't care all that much. As someone pointed out, not too many film people make technical decisions based on what's in Forbes. Forbes is for investors and since RED is a privately held company, nothing much changes with this article.
 
Mark Allen said:
Most people don't realize how manipulated financial information is. Even to this day people don't realize how mantras like "buy and hold" and "mutual funds are safe" and the belief in the ridiculous mutual fund ratings are (ridiculous because they're rated by a company owned by the company who owns the mutual funds) are all as much advertising as "magically delicious" is to Lucky Charms.

There's some good info out there and there have definitely been some decent articles even in Forbes - but everything should be taken with a grain of salt.

It's just like despite what researchers say every year again and again - that the bad affects of alcohol far outweigh any benefits and all the benefits could be gained from eating the right fruits anyway... but magazines are fueled by alcohol ads, so you always get these articles about how red wine is good for your health. So much so that people start to believe it as fact. Any magazines with advertising are going to be like this, a good deal of the articles are going to be obligatory to gain advertising.
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Exactly…

The journalist/editor probably had to ask a lot of people to even square away the most rudimentary information and somehow turn that into a “story”

The old adage …if they spell your name right... then you are doing well…

Good job that R…E…D is easy to spell.
 
What a temendous sack of lying bull crap. Red didn't just go head to head with Canon on November 3rd and win, Red completely humiliated Canon. Any other conclusion is either delusional or a sell out.
 
Oh wow
 
Mark Allen said:
Even to this day people don't realize how mantras like "buy and hold" and "mutual funds are safe" and the belief in the ridiculous mutual fund ratings are (ridiculous because they're rated by a company owned by the company who owns the mutual funds) are all as much advertising as "magically delicious" is to Lucky Charms.
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Putting your money into mutual funds is like giving all your chips to a Las Vegas hooker and letting her make the bets. Only not as much fun.
 
Sounds to me like someone there is for some reason very attached to canon, while I love canon and what they did for the indie market, I don't understand where something like this came from....
 
How ignorant.

However this article is so utterly meaningless in the overall scheme of things it barely registers as a blip on the radar.

Criticism means you are doing something right.

Ivan
 
Scott Miller said:
Erich, as far as a "perfect EF mount"... might want to note that the Canon DOES NOT have AF/AE/AWB.....

So the perfect mount is just that, a mount that can control the iris... Birger had that 4 years ago.
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Are you seriously arguing that Canon can't make a perfect EF mount?

It controls iris, focus, works with 2x adaptors and all EF lenses (RED's doesn't), and supports the even field illumination correction Canon does on their DSLRs for EF lenses. That's all pretty useful stuff to C300 buyers.

[sarc]But yeah, I'm sure the Birger mount is just as good.[/sarc]

Look, Canon doesn't have to lose for Red to win. They can both thrive. RED sells everything they make, and has for years (continual backorder is the only thing at RED that doesn't change).
 
People now come on you gotta admit how much cleaner & better the final Star Wars was for been shot on an overpriced Cine Alt. Razor sharp images, saturated blacks ..........not . The fact it was shot on digital was just one of the reasons I hate this movie. ....Oh & Jar Jar Binx.

The reporter is obviously working off a PR document & was also taken out for dinner.
 
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