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RED Projector...

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Any updates? Will this be at CES? or how about ship me one for testing hehehe :drool:

Really though I do Projector stress test and input lag test all the time.
 
Who knows, it might come out 5k $10-20k with a s35mm chip ;) .
 
Right now I'm thinking about buying a 3D TV just to get one, but I keep pushing it forward because I rather buy the projector instead.
Any news whatsoever to when we might get our hands on it? Is it two months from now? six months? a year? two years?

Epic is out, Scarlet is out, isn't this the next big thing? If I remember the chart of releases correctly. I'd rather have the projector out before the Red Ray because I assume it will handle resolutions up to 4K and not just 4K native.
 
Since CES is a consumer show, I tend to expect that Red will wait until April for NAB to show or announce any products. Just a guess on my part.
 
Christoffer Glans said:
Right now I'm thinking about buying a 3D TV just to get one, but I keep pushing it forward because I rather buy the projector instead.
Any news whatsoever to when we might get our hands on it? Is it two months from now? six months? a year? two years?

Epic is out, Scarlet is out, isn't this the next big thing? If I remember the chart of releases correctly. I'd rather have the projector out before the Red Ray because I assume it will handle resolutions up to 4K and not just 4K native.
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Christoffer, you could buy A 3D TV for $500 and stick it in the spare room when the projector comes out. The projector will probably cost a lot more than $500, when has Red ever made anything "cheap", even when they intend to. It is not like a genius with a social justice conscious is designing it cheap, such things require a vast amount of skills, and most engineers and designers simply don't have it.

Release time frames. If Apple turns out to be the intended avenue for Red Ray. The TV's are likely second half of the year (with their "revolutionary" visual interface that undoubtly will look like something the designer of Black Thunder already came up with, or be less adequate). The ivy bridge chipset based new Imac is mid year unless Apple can arrange something earlier, but I suspect maybe April. The Hi Res Ipad3 is Feb or latter. Power Mac is up in the air. So Red Ray could be announced or shown off at CES, released in April/May if it is tied into Apple. If the projector is tied into Redray, then it may follow a similar pattern. If not, maybe CES as consumer, or April as consumer or professional (or even end of the year ;) ).

Where is that 'release schedule' again to see what the plan was?


Thanks.
 
Did anyone notice that LG will be showing both an OLED set as well as a 4k that is 80in at CES in a few days?
Now if they could make a 4k OLED set that would be heaven!
 
Leif Thomas said:
Well,I LOVE hackaday.com - and there are always bright heads at work... but please guys..... make it better than this german homebrew:

http://hackaday.com/2011/12/31/full-color-laser-tv/
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I was interested in doing something like that with an old laser printer mechanism as a hobby, but came up with much better mechanisms. I came up with dozens of dozens of new display design concepts for displays over the years, light years ahead. Even on the basics a much better mechanism could be done. If you want cheap 8k or even 40k, talk to me. Once I considered a stadium scanning design, but as you could measure circumference velocity as a portion of the speed of light, not even I wanted to risk constraining the sort of matarial oscilation waves set up by that sort of velocity (used to do research into ultra high speed optical disc rotation mechanisms, as the waves set up in the discs ultimately make them shatter at higher speeds).
 
The company I work for (Cinerent) is right now investing big money in transitioning our mobile projection booths to digital. We do Openair Cinema in a number of epic locations around the planet. Sadly it is going to be 2k and due to the difficult light spill situation needs to be a stacked configuration with two Christie units. Setting up stacks is a real PITA, especially mobile. I would love to see a RED laser projector being deployed, but we are running out of time, the Film distributors are phasing out Film this year or the next.
A RED laser projector sounds perfect for our application, lots of light output which makes stacking unnecessary, no expensive bulb changes and 4k ready. But once this beast becomes available the backorder situation might be even more severe than with Epic and Scarlet. There are a LOT of theaters that would love to be your customers.
Anyone care to comment/spill some beans regarding the manufacturing capability side of this projector business?
 
I can't comment on REDs manufacturing or delivery situation, but my question is, will this projector be DCI compliant regarding DRM ?
I wonder which market this device is aimed for - does it include commercial theatres ?
 
Rocco Schult said:
I can't comment on REDs manufacturing or delivery situation, but my question is, will this projector be DCI compliant regarding DRM ?
I wonder which market this device is aimed for - does it include commercial theatres ?
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I wouldn't hold your breath for a response on this... just too early for them to release that kind of info imho
 
Very interesting piece in Daily Variety this week on the scramble to develop digital laser-driven 4K projectors for theaters. The big companies like Barco and Christie (and even Kodak) are saying it's still 2 years away. I'd love to see Red prove them wrong.
 
Let's get this out asap since isn't it next on The Roadmap . . . then we get Dragon, right?
 
Rocco Schult said:
I can't comment on REDs manufacturing or delivery situation, but my question is, will this projector be DCI compliant regarding DRM ?
I wonder which market this device is aimed for - does it include commercial theatres ?
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The answer is yes, from what has been said here. There is a professional-grade projector being designed for digital cinema installations and post-production work, followed by a consumer-grade projector for 4K home theater use.
 
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