Ah yes, hence the Sony J-3, which plays all 1/2" pro formats, including Beta SX.
If we'd have had more money we probably would have gone down that road. As it is, we started anew on DVCAM, from shooting to editing and hopefully, when we get round to buying the DSR-11, mastering.
The ITV series The Bill was shot on M-II and then all the tapes were copied to Betacam SP before editing. I have no idea why they didn't shoot on Beta SP.
Oh, and for the record - don't snigger - we still master to U-matic SP from a Media 100i edit suite. Yes, we are buying a DVCAM deck to go with our camera, but one thing at a time!
We slung the rest of the U-matic suite into a cupboard to make more space. No more video mixer, separate edit controller, three giant U-Matic decks heating up the room during edits. *sigh* I did shed a little tear, I cut my teeth on that linear system, but it's just blown away by a Media 100i system that cost us £20,000 - less than the cost of just the BVU-950P edit VTR when it was new.
The VHS standard isn't open any more than Betamax's is - you still have to pay royalties to use it and you can't change it.
So if I released a VHS recording deck that ran the tape at twice the speed to half the time but increase the quality, or I added a feature that allowed the drum to be adjusted to either shorten or lengthen the path of the heads on the tape to adjust quality then I'd be in violation of the VHS standard, and JVC would be on my ass.
Sony, rightly or wrongly in the "nice" stakes, kept Betamax to itself, and experimented with all these things and more and evolved Betamax into something much better than it was. They then sold it to the professional community for $5,000+ per VCR
My grandad had a V2000 machine. It's still sitting next to the TV in his living room along with all the original tapes he bought at the time. Obviously, he hasn't been able to find many places that sell new blank tapes.
The biggest benefit was being able to record three hours per side on a tape that was the same size (or nearly) as a VHS tape.
Pannasonic's professional video system is called DVC-Pro, and it is rather good. It uses the same size tapes as Sony's Pro format - DVCAM so there are machines that will play back both formats, but woe betide you try to mix them since they're not really compatible for reasons I won't get into here.
Sony has another professional format, the Betacam series, and this is the most widespread at the moment because a) Sony cornered the pro market a very long time ago with U-matic (3/4"), which while not compatible with Betacam, was very good for its time so TV companies and editing houses bought back into Sony when Betacam was released.
b) Betacam started as an analogue technology with Betacam Pro and Betacam SP and Sony evolved it into it's current incarnation, Digital Betacam. The important thing is that Betacam SP is compatible with the Digital version if you have one of Sony's editing recorders so you don't have to throw out all of your analogue cameras and VTRs, which cost tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/money to buy.
DVCAM is becoming more popular in non-linear systems because it's cheaper than DigiBeta and Sony's pro DVCAM decks will play and record consumer DV and MiniDV tapes, although obviously the quality is lower than DVCAM.
They didn't exactly get nothing - their groundwork with betamax enabled them to develop their professional video systems.
I think Sony have done rather well out of U-matic, Betacam and DigiBeta.
No longer are these machines changing hands for five figure sums - well, exceptthe most expensive DigiBeta deck, the DVW-A500, which is £24,995, excluding VAT (at 17.5%).
Sure, Sony sells consumer products, but the margins are so much lower - something I'm all to aware of since I'm buying A Sony DSR-11 DVCAM deck for our Media 100i non linear edit suite. This is the cheapest of all the DVCAM decks, and it retails for £1495 excluding VAT.
I just flew London to Chicago and back for a two week holiday - they have those airphones on the 767. The in flight magazine quoted the rate as $10/min.
Here are some recent (5 minutes ago) screenshots taken on Chimera.
The first is 100k and shows the whole window, the other two show detail of the radio buttons and web buttons, which look like the standard Aqua buttons in OS X.
Chimera also uses OS X's Quartz engine to drae text and stuff on the screen, so it looks pretty and anti-aliased.
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So, err, why does it work when I bought a Mac and took a lot of the components out of my Athlon system (hard drive, ram, cd writer, monitor) and put them in the Mac and watched with joy as it started OSX and worked perfectly.
Macs have the same components as PCs in many respects - only the motherboard and processor are proprietry.
You can go to any PC store, buy a hard drive, ram etc and stick it in a Mac and it will work just fine.
The current KC-10 tanker aircraft can refuel 3 small aircraft at a time, or one large one using the flying boom.
I wouldn't want to fly three large aircraft less than 10 feet apart for refuelling - holding just two in close proximity is hard enough. The wash from the tanker affects flight dynamics of the trailing aircraft, and the bow wave from the trailing aircraft affects the flight dynamics of the tanker.
It's a delicate aireal dance, and one of the most dangerous things in aviation.
People seem to think that the planes get bigger and bigger but engines stay the same.
Rolls Royce has been developing more efficient jet engines for years, so it will probably be cheaper to fly an A380 than a 747, certainly given the similar shapes of the airframe.
It also takes longer to fly transatalantic now than it did 20 years ago - because the airlines fly more slowly to conserve fuel.
You could have that extra half hour off your flight tomorrow if you wanted to pay more dor the pilot to open up the throttle a bit.
the unpredictable shear stresses caused by all that turbulent flow.
I'm not saying it would shake itself to bits, but wear is substatially higher for components subjected to varying stresses and strains, and as they are aircraft are already subject to variation enough with air turbulence, temperature changes and so on.
I had a feeling that the article would claim that everything was invented by the US (or exclude things invented outside the US), and where they had to include something huge, they'd fudge over the details about where it was invented.
I couldn't get the article to load properly (kept crashing Chimera) so I didn't get to see them all.
I would have thought one of the top ones would have been the TV ariel - invented in Japan, or the jet engine, invented in Britain, or radar, invented in Britain, or the computer - invented in Britain by Charles Babbage.
The US will be claiming it invented the wheel soon.
Well, a US company will probably patent it then sue everyone that wants to use "a circular device that aids travel".
Some bright young upstart that owns an American company filed a patent for "evacuation of liquid into a self cleaning porcelain container".
I had the misfortune to ask them where the bathroom was since I was desperate for a piss.
The lawsuit is going to take ages! I can't wait that long!
If I piss myself I'll have to pay for a licence to wash my trousers at the laundromat else I'll be in violation of the "clean garments by watching them spin round and round in a drum with hydrogen dioxide and sodium sterate" patent.
In soviet russia, I wouldn't have this problem I'm sure.
Err, I don't know what crack you're on, but you can buy a 55 button mouse in any shop and connect it to a Mac. The really expensive ones come with tissues so you can clean up after yourself when you're done wanking over them.
All the hardware inside our machines is identical to a PC, except the quality stuff - motherboard and CPU.
You walk into a PC shop, buy a Radeon 9000, stick it in a G4 and be playing in moments.
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Very bloody large casettes!
A U-matic 60 minute tape (as big as you can get) is about 9" wide, 1" high and 6" deep.
A small U-matic deck is 19" wide (rack mount), 5U high, and god knows how deep - about 24" I think.
We have them. They're huge, they're noisy, they're heavy, but we love them.
Ah yes, hence the Sony J-3, which plays all 1/2" pro formats, including Beta SX.
If we'd have had more money we probably would have gone down that road. As it is, we started anew on DVCAM, from shooting to editing and hopefully, when we get round to buying the DSR-11, mastering.
Wow, I'd forgotten about M-II.
The ITV series The Bill was shot on M-II and then all the tapes were copied to Betacam SP before editing. I have no idea why they didn't shoot on Beta SP.
Oh, and for the record - don't snigger - we still master to U-matic SP from a Media 100i edit suite. Yes, we are buying a DVCAM deck to go with our camera, but one thing at a time!
We slung the rest of the U-matic suite into a cupboard to make more space. No more video mixer, separate edit controller, three giant U-Matic decks heating up the room during edits. *sigh* I did shed a little tear, I cut my teeth on that linear system, but it's just blown away by a Media 100i system that cost us £20,000 - less than the cost of just the BVU-950P edit VTR when it was new.
The VHS standard isn't open any more than Betamax's is - you still have to pay royalties to use it and you can't change it.
So if I released a VHS recording deck that ran the tape at twice the speed to half the time but increase the quality, or I added a feature that allowed the drum to be adjusted to either shorten or lengthen the path of the heads on the tape to adjust quality then I'd be in violation of the VHS standard, and JVC would be on my ass.
Sony, rightly or wrongly in the "nice" stakes, kept Betamax to itself, and experimented with all these things and more and evolved Betamax into something much better than it was. They then sold it to the professional community for $5,000+ per VCR
My grandad had a V2000 machine. It's still sitting next to the TV in his living room along with all the original tapes he bought at the time. Obviously, he hasn't been able to find many places that sell new blank tapes.
The biggest benefit was being able to record three hours per side on a tape that was the same size (or nearly) as a VHS tape.
Well, actually, they do.
Pannasonic's professional video system is called DVC-Pro, and it is rather good. It uses the same size tapes as Sony's Pro format - DVCAM so there are machines that will play back both formats, but woe betide you try to mix them since they're not really compatible for reasons I won't get into here.
Sony has another professional format, the Betacam series, and this is the most widespread at the moment because a) Sony cornered the pro market a very long time ago with U-matic (3/4"), which while not compatible with Betacam, was very good for its time so TV companies and editing houses bought back into Sony when Betacam was released.
b) Betacam started as an analogue technology with Betacam Pro and Betacam SP and Sony evolved it into it's current incarnation, Digital Betacam. The important thing is that Betacam SP is compatible with the Digital version if you have one of Sony's editing recorders so you don't have to throw out all of your analogue cameras and VTRs, which cost tens of thousands of pounds/dollars/money to buy.
DVCAM is becoming more popular in non-linear systems because it's cheaper than DigiBeta and Sony's pro DVCAM decks will play and record consumer DV and MiniDV tapes, although obviously the quality is lower than DVCAM.
Err, back to the topic now..
They didn't exactly get nothing - their groundwork with betamax enabled them to develop their professional video systems.
I think Sony have done rather well out of U-matic, Betacam and DigiBeta.
No longer are these machines changing hands for five figure sums - well, exceptthe most expensive DigiBeta deck, the DVW-A500, which is £24,995, excluding VAT (at 17.5%).
Sure, Sony sells consumer products, but the margins are so much lower - something I'm all to aware of since I'm buying A Sony DSR-11 DVCAM deck for our Media 100i non linear edit suite. This is the cheapest of all the DVCAM decks, and it retails for £1495 excluding VAT.
I just flew London to Chicago and back for a two week holiday - they have those airphones on the 767. The in flight magazine quoted the rate as $10/min.
No, the server just put a foil hat on.
Here are some recent (5 minutes ago) screenshots taken on Chimera.
h am.com/3way/chimera2.jpgc himera3.jpg
The first is 100k and shows the whole window, the other two show detail of the radio buttons and web buttons, which look like the standard Aqua buttons in OS X.
Chimera also uses OS X's Quartz engine to drae text and stuff on the screen, so it looks pretty and anti-aliased.
http://jo-ham.com/3way/chimera1.jpg
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http://jo-ham.com/3way/
Like StarHeart, no popups for me, Chimera 0.6, Mac OS X 10.1.5
Not where it counts.
Seen all those adverts for the new Pentium with HT tech saying "compose while you burn?" "you can with the new P4 with HT!"
Well, my 600Mhz G3 iBook burns just fine when I'm surfing the net, playing mp3s, accessing my HD.
I can also encode mpeg4 in real time.
If my humble G3 can do that, what the hell can a G4 do!
Oh, my G3 has no fan either, nor does the new G4. What? Need me to speak up? That huge fan on your red hot pentium cpu damaging your hearing?
But wow!
How much do you want to sell it for?
So, err, why does it work when I bought a Mac and took a lot of the components out of my Athlon system (hard drive, ram, cd writer, monitor) and put them in the Mac and watched with joy as it started OSX and worked perfectly.
Macs have the same components as PCs in many respects - only the motherboard and processor are proprietry.
You can go to any PC store, buy a hard drive, ram etc and stick it in a Mac and it will work just fine.
"Closed system"? Hardly.
You can get the case off your iBook with a standard set of Torx screwdrivers, avaialable from any hardware shop.
You'll need a T8 and a T6. The rest of the screws holding in drive bay, modem, shield plate etc are all philips/cross head.
I thought John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, came up with the TV. Maybe that was colour TV.
I can't remember.
The current KC-10 tanker aircraft can refuel 3 small aircraft at a time, or one large one using the flying boom.
I wouldn't want to fly three large aircraft less than 10 feet apart for refuelling - holding just two in close proximity is hard enough. The wash from the tanker affects flight dynamics of the trailing aircraft, and the bow wave from the trailing aircraft affects the flight dynamics of the tanker.
It's a delicate aireal dance, and one of the most dangerous things in aviation.
People seem to think that the planes get bigger and bigger but engines stay the same.
Rolls Royce has been developing more efficient jet engines for years, so it will probably be cheaper to fly an A380 than a 747, certainly given the similar shapes of the airframe.
It also takes longer to fly transatalantic now than it did 20 years ago - because the airlines fly more slowly to conserve fuel.
You could have that extra half hour off your flight tomorrow if you wanted to pay more dor the pilot to open up the throttle a bit.
The speed of sound is 760mph at sea level, slightly less at 35,000 feet.
the unpredictable shear stresses caused by all that turbulent flow.
I'm not saying it would shake itself to bits, but wear is substatially higher for components subjected to varying stresses and strains, and as they are aircraft are already subject to variation enough with air turbulence, temperature changes and so on.
They already have bomb proof luggage containers that fit the standard sizes, but airlines don't use them because they are too expensive.
I had a feeling that the article would claim that everything was invented by the US (or exclude things invented outside the US), and where they had to include something huge, they'd fudge over the details about where it was invented.
I couldn't get the article to load properly (kept crashing Chimera) so I didn't get to see them all.
I would have thought one of the top ones would have been the TV ariel - invented in Japan, or the jet engine, invented in Britain, or radar, invented in Britain, or the computer - invented in Britain by Charles Babbage.
The US will be claiming it invented the wheel soon.
Well, a US company will probably patent it then sue everyone that wants to use "a circular device that aids travel".
I'm not allowed to reverse engineer the molecule in question and post how it was made up otherwise I'll be sued under the DMCA.
Some bright young upstart that owns an American company filed a patent for "evacuation of liquid into a self cleaning porcelain container".
I had the misfortune to ask them where the bathroom was since I was desperate for a piss.
The lawsuit is going to take ages! I can't wait that long!
If I piss myself I'll have to pay for a licence to wash my trousers at the laundromat else I'll be in violation of the "clean garments by watching them spin round and round in a drum with hydrogen dioxide and sodium sterate" patent.
In soviet russia, I wouldn't have this problem I'm sure.
Do they piss on me there?
Err, I don't know what crack you're on, but you can buy a 55 button mouse in any shop and connect it to a Mac. The really expensive ones come with tissues so you can clean up after yourself when you're done wanking over them.
All the hardware inside our machines is identical to a PC, except the quality stuff - motherboard and CPU.
You walk into a PC shop, buy a Radeon 9000, stick it in a G4 and be playing in moments.