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Ted talks about the Red Ray and HFR

Jon Jones said:
I do want the Redray, but I don't want to buy it at $1450, and then they lower the price to $700. So I will wait.
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Normally I would wait until the 1st adopters paid the R&D costs so the price could come down, but I decided to become an early adopter in this case because I want to learn the product as early as I can. The good news for anyone choosing to wait is that the encoding plug-in will be available separately and will allow content creation in the .RED format.
 
Jon Jones said:
I do want the Redray, but I don't want to buy it at $1450, and then they lower the price to $700. So I will wait.
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For big ticket items, I agree with you. Although I haven't ordered one yet myself, I don't see the potential for maybe a $750 savings in 12 or 18 months as much of an incentive. Right now, I think the biggest deterrent is lack of content (other than my own RED footage) and no affordable 4K displays available yet. When ODEMAX launches, it may make sense to get one and just hook it up to a regular HD display for now; if for nothing else than to test .RED files before putting them up to ODEMAX.

It's going to be an exciting year!
 
The other tid-bit mentioned by Ted in the interview (towards the end) is that we probably won't see the projector for another 4 - 6 months. Oh well ... it will be ready ... when it is ready.

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Will there be RedRay discs that you can buy and collect, like you can now with BluRay?

I like having a physical disc.
 
True. Even if it does go down half in price, it wont matter too much I guess. It would be exciting to display Blue Ray through the Redray. Didn't Ted say something about the signal being uprezzed or something like that.

-Jon

Terry VerHaar said:
For big ticket items, I agree with you. Although I haven't ordered one yet myself, I don't see the potential for maybe a $750 savings in 12 or 18 months as much of an incentive. Right now, I think the biggest deterrent is lack of content (other than my own RED footage) and no affordable 4K displays available yet. When ODEMAX launches, it may make sense to get one and just hook it up to a regular HD display for now; if for nothing else than to test .RED files before putting them up to ODEMAX.

It's going to be an exciting year!
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Martin Stevens said:
Will there be RedRay discs that you can buy and collect, like you can now with BluRay?

I like having a physical disc.
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Interesting question. I've heard mention that you can put a .RED encode on a thumb drive for playback on the player, so I guess you could substitute optical disk media for the flashdrive and with a USB disk player, play that back on the Red Ray Player.
 
I believe you can actually hook up an external hard drive too.

Elsie N said:
Interesting question. I've heard mention that you can put a .RED encode on a thumb drive for playback on the player, so I guess you could substitute optical disk media for the flashdrive and with a USB disk player, play that back on the Red Ray Player.
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Bob Gundu said:
I believe you can actually hook up an external hard drive too.
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I vaguely recall that as well. But do you remember WTI (what the interface) that would use? I suppose a USB 2.0 dock would work.

EDIT: I wish the player had at least, a USB 3.0 connector to offload the internal drive's contents onto an external drive for storage.
 
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Thinking about the .RED codec... I guess this would qualify as irony that the Dragon at say 3:1 quality and 96 fps would require some of the more massive media rates for capture, while the .RED format for viewing requires only a USB 2.0 connection for viewing. To be able to master both ends, high data rate and low data rate as well... that's just amazing.



EDIT: Not sure you can capture 96 fps at 3:1, but at whatever setting, that's a lot of data.
 
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The Red Ray Player has USB2 and E-sata connections Both of which you can attach a drive for infinite content storage.

Larry
 
One thing that I'm a bit concerned about, is that RED is entering the consumer-market in a way, with this thing.

No the normal consumer isn't going to pay 1450 dollars for a media player, but it isn't only high end professionals at that point (Blu-Ray was about something like that for early adopters). So, while professionals can put a context to how innovative RED is with their camera's etc, and that delays are part of the manufacturing period, I think a rich consumer pre-ordering a REDRAY on the RED website won't think it will be nice if the product has a 6month delay or more.

I think with the whole ODEMAX release and stuff, they are prepared, and I really hope so for them. On the other hand, I have to be honest: as great products as Epic and Scarlet are, Jim also said in the beginning that the product would be bullet-proof out of the gate because of what they learned with REDOne. I'm not sure they always had that in the beginning of the Epic-Days.

I wish them all the luck in the world though. It seems they have a distribution plan that has the potential to really shake up the whole industry.
 
Larry Kelly said:
The Red Ray Player has USB2 and E-sata connections Both of which you can attach a drive for infinite content storage.

Larry
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e SATA? Good. That satisfies the offload bandwidth needs.
 
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