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Who's Excited?

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about the RED Laser Projector... seriously. Epic and Scarlet Cameras are the bomb... and yet I just can't wait to see this kit.
 
I'm very excited. If powerful enough, I'm more excited about the potential for what it could mean for theaters.
 
I have our baselight suite ready to go and the money set aside. Itching to trigger that order, hopefully soon since we are holding back other stuff due to this. ( I know its a bad idea to plan around red-release-dates, but i have faith they are upping their game regarding this.)
 
Frank Cueto said:
I have our baselight suite ready to go and the money set aside. Itching to trigger that order, hopefully soon since we are holding back other stuff due to this. ( I know its a bad idea to plan around red-release-dates, but i have faith they are upping their game regarding this.)
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Same...

It's like waiting for a MAC tower with thunderbolt :))))) hahhaaha......
 
I'm looking forward to being able to show DOPs 4K footage over HD, Alexa and RED look very similar on a 17" monitor. If I was based in Hollywood I would be able to convince DOPs to switch to RED by taking them to Red studios and showing them the difference. This projector will help me massively.
 
The one-two whammy has to be Red Ray Pro and Red Projector...certainly yes one can playout 4K from whichever system the projector might get attached to, but having a 4K master or copies of dailies on some manner of SSD makes this portable...I'm hugely excited by the prospect of being able to affordably master to 4K, then show it in 4K -affordably.

This is key, especially when seeing is believing, and if more people can be exposed to 4K then it will become the defacto standard even quicker than we expect, and I'm sure that's music to Jim's ears!

...and I thought it might be interesting to dovetail this discussion into this link:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...cts-are-as-big-as-the-screens/article2386349/

Resolution on a large scale is what is driving Imax. That can only bode well for RedUsers...
 
Who owns the biggest theatre chain(s) in NA? Something tells me moneyhats would need to be involved for them to drop whatever projector's they're currently using and swap to RED laser... Also, without a proven track record (which RED doesn't really have in the projector market) I don't think commercial use (mainstream theatrical viability) would be considered for at least a few years. Projectors in theatres have to run for 6-8 hours a day with at least some proven reliability... In other words, it'll probably take quite a bit of time.
 
I Just installed a $1200 xenon lamp in our Barco. The last lamp totally failed at ~800 hours, we get about 6 months of run time if we run till failure, which is not really best practice. Ideally we'd swap lamps after about 400 hours, but $1200 is a big chunk of cash for an indie cinema. My point is that -every- digital cinema has to do this, if i recall correctly the RED laser lamp(led?) will last some orders of magnitude longer than what is currently in standard operation all over the world. The money saved on lamps will pay for the Red projector in as little as 3 years depending on the size of projector it is replacing.... lamps for the early versions of the sony 4K projectors were/are about $2600/set. -if- the projector ends up being DCI compliant 4K and hugely reduced operating costs is a no-brainer
 
Hope we get to play with one up close at NAB... :aureola:
 
Pity this was not about redray, or nab, I was going to post that I was not excited, but if Jim released anything excited, that might be subject to "change without notice" ;) .

Still, think about Red ray, and red laser, might be a bit confusing, and think if they had redray and redlaser in one box, with a camera (my freibds suggestion for camera and laser).

Still, bring on those powerfull redray lasers, we can dump them out of airplanes to blind unexpecting enemy troops, and write on them love from Jim, with his address, which is sort of ironic, as they will be too blind to read it and come around ;)
 
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