anyone who thinks that "most" TV production is done in either film or HD is dreaming. They are very much reserved for the top earning shows. You'll probably find most production is either DigiBeta camcorder (excellent performance as long as you don't do disgusting "film effect" to it) Beta SP (better than most people realise) and DV in all it's various guises. I work in TV in the UK where production seems to be 60% DigiBeta 30% DV and 10% everything else now, I can't imagine that it's much different in the US.
"Sure, except it has three signifigant advantages over the F60. It comes with effectavly 1000s of rolls of free film and proccessing (not printing though), the proccessing is instant not "one hour" including a histogram, and lastly they mount Canon lenses:-)"
Of course, Nikon lenses are far superior to Canon! Shit, they're almost as good as Zeiss!:-] But I still maintain that the D30, D60, EOS 1, D1 and F100 cameras (despite all being really excellent) are definitely transitional products only, as the support lens ranges that simply are not designed to function correctly with them. What's a standard lens on a D60, 28mm? That can't be right. The fact that Canon and Nikon are offering these SLRs at all shows a clear intention to move to larger imaging chips when possible. We have both the Sigma/Foveon product and the Contax N1 imminent, and these two might change the situation substantially by themselves. Anyone buying a digital SLR right now is either doing editorial/PJ photography or has more money than sense. Still, if someone were to GIVE me a D60 or a D1x....
is this the same Arnold Schwarzenegger who ran over his own dog in his ludicrous Hmmmm Veeeee? hahahahahahahahaha, I imagine he's got some great insight there for $75K! As stupid as Arnie undoubtedly is, he's not as dumb as anyone who would actually BUY the fucking Total Recall DVD...
that's a genius level prediction right there. What do you do, just look at Apple's range and then wonder out loud when the features will trickle down to lower cost PCs? Dumb fuck.
but, of course, no-one forced him to do a remake did they? If Burton had any respect for the original (and his own reputation as a creative director) he wouldn't have gone anywhere NEAR a reamke. Shame on him - how many MORE millions do you suppose he earned?
I wouldn't worry about the D30/60 just yet. Digital SLRs are NOT there yet - that's why the D60 is 4 times the price of a Nikon F60 for LESS capability. I say we're two years away from switchover, and RAW will be replaced by a proper standard. Everyone will support it, Apple's PCs will be more expensive but still more attractive and reliable. Photojournalists will STILL use Powerbooks...
just what I was thinking. Our Symphonies cost 100K each, our Editbox FX cost 150K - our small offline G4 based Avids cost around 50K each using a single grade 2 JVC monitor, 2xMitsu VGAs, Genelec monitors, Spirit folio, £1500 desk etc and that's without any VTRs - they're all on the matrix in the CAR. A grade 1 Sony BVM is around £6500. And if you beleive an Avid set-up renders any faster than any other similarily specced PC or Mac, think again.
I use Mail.app too, but it really is limited compared to Outlook Express under OS9. Sorry Apple, but OE is both more flexible AND more comprehensively featured. Still, Mail.app's gonna improve over time, right? BTW, Entourage stinks.
I wouldn't worry about falling behind the Americans - we have MPEG2 16:9 720x576 interlaced pictures NOW, but the standard is designed to be extensible in the future. If there is demand for HDTV in the future, the MPEG2 infrastructure can cope. Americans get fucked-up HDTV now (maybe), but their broadcasters aren't being eased into widescreen production at all, so if it ever takes off you can expect all sorts of nastiness. The UK REALLY DOES lead on this one - and you can't say that very often. If only some of the vision and strict regulation that's been applied to TV would be applied to broadband we might actually have a forward looking BUSINESS infrastructure as well...
nope, you're wrong. the licence fee entitles you to watch ALL BBC channels, there is no additional charge for the digital only channels. the BBC will supply you with a viewing card for free to access their TV and radio services over Sky Digital. They won't buy you the dish or decoder, but they don't give you a free TV or aerial either.
So you're not a big home-cinema guy then? A fucking 14 inch fucking white fucking crappy fucking Amiga fucking monitor for a fucking TV for fuck's sake! Go spend some dough on a 20 inch grade 2 broadcast video monitor and you'll have better pictures than ANY domestic TV for less than a grand.
not quite true - only devices CAPABLE of receiving free-to-air BBC TV services incur the licence fee (that's why monitors and DVD players don't count). Not many people realise that licence fee holders can request a free viewing card for Sky Digital which will allow them to watch the BBC services that they've paid for using Sky's superior infrastucture. So, if you've got a Shy digibox, you can dump Sky and still get lovely widescreen digital TV and radio through your dish. Hooray!
no, you're wrong about that - every digital TV system that I've seen working or proposed includes some kind of card-based conditional access. So that means multiple decoding boxes (like the 2 boxes / one dish set ups that many of us UK Sky Digital users have). With the collapse of ITV Digital in the UK, we may yet see a change to this policy just to make sure that the investment in DTT hasn't been wasted - I'm counting on a govt + BBC stitch up for this one...
"past the 150k mile mark, mileage is pretty irrelavant, since most of the car has been replaced with newer parts at that point."
Your car must be an unreliable POS if this is actually TRUE - my Mazda is up to 135K and has only ever had standard servicing and tires. Never gone wrong, never crashed, never let me down.
No, you couldn't. That's my point, really. You're the worst writer I've ever seen and I feel duty bound to bring your feeble scribblings to the attention of a wider audience so that you may properly garner the contempt that you deserve. You've ruined TMO and you're an embarrassment to the Mac community.
amen - PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - it really was exactly that. pretty amazing that Jobs couldn't see just how much potential that machine had. I wonder if Apple is secretly doing ANYTHING with Newton technology - if Sharp can get an embedded Linux onto a PDA, couldn't Apple get an embedded OSX going on one? The little Newtonesque touches in OSX (like the puff of smoke delete) really give me hope - and there have been various HWR-on-OSX stories bandied about from time to time.
mr helpless has a point though - I have both MP130 and a 2100 and they have fallen out of use (despite being fantastic) due to the waning Newton community and lack of development. I'm sure I could get them serviced by Apple if needed (they're REALLY reliable) but I don't know if I would bother. That new Sharp Zaurus 5500 might be a better long term bet, sad to think how much better a machine Apple could build... o fuck it, DID BUILD!
no-one in the rest of the world takes anything written at TMO seriously do they? have you seen the shit there written by that motherfucker who calls itself "iBrotha". that shit'd make a dog laugh, no really.
amen - I have found that almost no-one I meet has any idea how good the HWR was on the Newton. When I see Graffiti I despair at it's inadequacies. I still maintain that the Newton is the only computer that you can usefully use in the back of a taxi on a bumpy road. Apple's greatest missed opportunity - though I don't blame them for saving the company by killing it.
I think that Psion's wonderful slide-out design is patented - it'd only make sense. Have you ever seen the keyboard on the Series 7 / Netbook? Brilliant.
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anyone who thinks that "most" TV production is done in either film or HD is dreaming. They are very much reserved for the top earning shows. You'll probably find most production is either DigiBeta camcorder (excellent performance as long as you don't do disgusting "film effect" to it) Beta SP (better than most people realise) and DV in all it's various guises. I work in TV in the UK where production seems to be 60% DigiBeta 30% DV and 10% everything else now, I can't imagine that it's much different in the US.
"Sure, except it has three signifigant advantages over the F60. It comes with effectavly 1000s of rolls of free film and proccessing (not printing though), the proccessing is instant not "one hour" including a histogram, and lastly they mount Canon lenses :-)"
:-] But I still maintain that the D30, D60, EOS 1, D1 and F100 cameras (despite all being really excellent) are definitely transitional products only, as the support lens ranges that simply are not designed to function correctly with them. What's a standard lens on a D60, 28mm? That can't be right. The fact that Canon and Nikon are offering these SLRs at all shows a clear intention to move to larger imaging chips when possible. We have both the Sigma/Foveon product and the Contax N1 imminent, and these two might change the situation substantially by themselves. Anyone buying a digital SLR right now is either doing editorial/PJ photography or has more money than sense. Still, if someone were to GIVE me a D60 or a D1x....
Of course, Nikon lenses are far superior to Canon! Shit, they're almost as good as Zeiss!
is this the same Arnold Schwarzenegger who ran over his own dog in his ludicrous Hmmmm Veeeee? hahahahahahahahaha, I imagine he's got some great insight there for $75K! As stupid as Arnie undoubtedly is, he's not as dumb as anyone who would actually BUY the fucking Total Recall DVD...
that's a genius level prediction right there. What do you do, just look at Apple's range and then wonder out loud when the features will trickle down to lower cost PCs? Dumb fuck.
but, of course, no-one forced him to do a remake did they? If Burton had any respect for the original (and his own reputation as a creative director) he wouldn't have gone anywhere NEAR a reamke. Shame on him - how many MORE millions do you suppose he earned?
I wouldn't worry about the D30/60 just yet. Digital SLRs are NOT there yet - that's why the D60 is 4 times the price of a Nikon F60 for LESS capability. I say we're two years away from switchover, and RAW will be replaced by a proper standard. Everyone will support it, Apple's PCs will be more expensive but still more attractive and reliable. Photojournalists will STILL use Powerbooks...
just what I was thinking. Our Symphonies cost 100K each, our Editbox FX cost 150K - our small offline G4 based Avids cost around 50K each using a single grade 2 JVC monitor, 2xMitsu VGAs, Genelec monitors, Spirit folio, £1500 desk etc and that's without any VTRs - they're all on the matrix in the CAR. A grade 1 Sony BVM is around £6500. And if you beleive an Avid set-up renders any faster than any other similarily specced PC or Mac, think again.
I use Mail.app too, but it really is limited compared to Outlook Express under OS9. Sorry Apple, but OE is both more flexible AND more comprehensively featured. Still, Mail.app's gonna improve over time, right? BTW, Entourage stinks.
could you put your teeth in and repost that please?
I wouldn't worry about falling behind the Americans - we have MPEG2 16:9 720x576 interlaced pictures NOW, but the standard is designed to be extensible in the future. If there is demand for HDTV in the future, the MPEG2 infrastructure can cope. Americans get fucked-up HDTV now (maybe), but their broadcasters aren't being eased into widescreen production at all, so if it ever takes off you can expect all sorts of nastiness. The UK REALLY DOES lead on this one - and you can't say that very often. If only some of the vision and strict regulation that's been applied to TV would be applied to broadband we might actually have a forward looking BUSINESS infrastructure as well...
nope, you're wrong. the licence fee entitles you to watch ALL BBC channels, there is no additional charge for the digital only channels. the BBC will supply you with a viewing card for free to access their TV and radio services over Sky Digital. They won't buy you the dish or decoder, but they don't give you a free TV or aerial either.
So you're not a big home-cinema guy then? A fucking 14 inch fucking white fucking crappy fucking Amiga fucking monitor for a fucking TV for fuck's sake! Go spend some dough on a 20 inch grade 2 broadcast video monitor and you'll have better pictures than ANY domestic TV for less than a grand.
not quite true - only devices CAPABLE of receiving free-to-air BBC TV services incur the licence fee (that's why monitors and DVD players don't count). Not many people realise that licence fee holders can request a free viewing card for Sky Digital which will allow them to watch the BBC services that they've paid for using Sky's superior infrastucture. So, if you've got a Shy digibox, you can dump Sky and still get lovely widescreen digital TV and radio through your dish. Hooray!
no, you're wrong about that - every digital TV system that I've seen working or proposed includes some kind of card-based conditional access. So that means multiple decoding boxes (like the 2 boxes / one dish set ups that many of us UK Sky Digital users have). With the collapse of ITV Digital in the UK, we may yet see a change to this policy just to make sure that the investment in DTT hasn't been wasted - I'm counting on a govt + BBC stitch up for this one...
"past the 150k mile mark, mileage is pretty irrelavant, since most of the car has been replaced with newer parts at that point."
Your car must be an unreliable POS if this is actually TRUE - my Mazda is up to 135K and has only ever had standard servicing and tires. Never gone wrong, never crashed, never let me down.
yep - and I'm on that list, too!
"I could come up with some witty retort"
No, you couldn't. That's my point, really. You're the worst writer I've ever seen and I feel duty bound to bring your feeble scribblings to the attention of a wider audience so that you may properly garner the contempt that you deserve. You've ruined TMO and you're an embarrassment to the Mac community.
amen - PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - it really was exactly that. pretty amazing that Jobs couldn't see just how much potential that machine had. I wonder if Apple is secretly doing ANYTHING with Newton technology - if Sharp can get an embedded Linux onto a PDA, couldn't Apple get an embedded OSX going on one? The little Newtonesque touches in OSX (like the puff of smoke delete) really give me hope - and there have been various HWR-on-OSX stories bandied about from time to time.
mr helpless has a point though - I have both MP130 and a 2100 and they have fallen out of use (despite being fantastic) due to the waning Newton community and lack of development. I'm sure I could get them serviced by Apple if needed (they're REALLY reliable) but I don't know if I would bother. That new Sharp Zaurus 5500 might be a better long term bet, sad to think how much better a machine Apple could build... o fuck it, DID BUILD!
vision is NOT a verb. somebody please kill me now if it is.
nice to hear from you again, Mr McCarthy.
no-one in the rest of the world takes anything written at TMO seriously do they? have you seen the shit there written by that motherfucker who calls itself "iBrotha". that shit'd make a dog laugh, no really.
amen - I have found that almost no-one I meet has any idea how good the HWR was on the Newton. When I see Graffiti I despair at it's inadequacies. I still maintain that the Newton is the only computer that you can usefully use in the back of a taxi on a bumpy road. Apple's greatest missed opportunity - though I don't blame them for saving the company by killing it.
I think that Psion's wonderful slide-out design is patented - it'd only make sense. Have you ever seen the keyboard on the Series 7 / Netbook? Brilliant.
current affairs not a hobby of yours then?