Comments on: Digital Test Bed http://cluster.othermaps.com/digital-test-bed mediated space etc. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:41:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Timothy http://cluster.othermaps.com/digital-test-bed/comment-page-1#comment-34 Timothy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=94#comment-34 there was a *lot* of beyond-HD (ie digital cinema) goings-on at NAB this year ... starting with the camera. check the <a>Dalsa Origin</a> (4K x 2K) ... the datarate (8 x HDCAM SR) is nasty ... spat to a big-ass RAID of 4x400MB Firewire channels. ouch. i have this image of future toy cameras (a la FisherPrice Pixelvision) having "old" HD tapes in them but but moving *really* fast so they can capture shitty 4kx2k res for the kids. there was a *lot* of beyond-HD (ie digital cinema) goings-on at NAB this year … starting with the camera. check the Dalsa Origin (4K x 2K) … the datarate (8 x HDCAM SR) is nasty … spat to a big-ass RAID of 4×400MB Firewire channels. ouch.

i have this image of future toy cameras (a la FisherPrice Pixelvision) having “old” HD tapes in them but but moving *really* fast so they can capture shitty 4kx2k res for the kids.

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/digital-test-bed/comment-page-1#comment-35 darrell Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=94#comment-35 I really haven't had much to do with HD stuff in the UK (where it is practically invisible as a technology). But I'd still love one of those ancient Japanese HD laserdisk players -- there was always something very satisfying about Japanese analog HDTV back in the 1980s -- as much for the sheer impossibility of them having actually made it work, as for the picture quality. I really haven’t had much to do with HD stuff in the UK (where it is practically invisible as a technology). But I’d still love one of those ancient Japanese HD laserdisk players — there was always something very satisfying about Japanese analog HDTV back in the 1980s — as much for the sheer impossibility of them having actually made it work, as for the picture quality.

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/digital-test-bed/comment-page-1#comment-36 darrell Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=94#comment-36 There's a timely article on the question of 'how good is good enough' for digital cinema in the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/technology/circuits/19cine.html ">NYT</a> today-- with much angsting about the funbdamental question of how to judge how good a given system is. Feels very much like the arguments over CD back in 1983. The Digital Cinema Laboratory in LA (the US equivalent of the Digital Test Bed), has been built in the Hollywood Pacific Theater, 'an Italianate palace originally built (but finished too late) for the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer," the first sound film with some spoken dialogue.' Seems appropriate (especially the 'opened too late' part ;-) There’s a timely article on the question of ‘how good is good enough’ for digital cinema in the NYT today– with much angsting about the funbdamental question of how to judge how good a given system is. Feels very much like the arguments over CD back in 1983. The Digital Cinema Laboratory in LA (the US equivalent of the Digital Test Bed), has been built in the Hollywood Pacific Theater, ‘an Italianate palace originally built (but finished too late) for the 1927 premiere of “The Jazz Singer,” the first sound film with some spoken dialogue.’ Seems appropriate (especially the ‘opened too late’ part ;-)

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