The real issue is content, in that nothing is really in 4K right now. The transportation and storage method is not.
No. The real issue is the transportation and storage.
'We' work on 4K theatrical releases daily. They're stored uncompressed as image sequences on large disk arrays. Or alternatively as RED/Arri/Other digital files which require real-time de-bayering via a dedicated hardware card or GPU. We have the content.
It's relatively simple to deliver 4K theatrical releases to your local DCP. Delivering over air or cable will require superb (new) compression algorithms in to maintain acceptable quality whilst dramatically reducing data rate, perhaps aided by a local GPU within future televisions/decoders.
I'm sorry, but that's simply not true. Have you any experiences to back up your claims?
My company is a time honoured user of Infortend Arrays - supported in the UK by European Raid Arrays (e-raid.co.uk).
A good number of the Soho Film industry in London runs on Infortrend RAIDs supplied by ERA. We've never lost any data on the RAID as long as I've been here (5yrs+), had minimal drive failures and - I think - two PSU failures. We have many TB of RAID and numerous RAIDs (FC, SCSI and SATA).
But then, we do keep them in suitable machine rooms.
Were you by any chance using yours as door-stops in your kitchen?
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The real issue is content, in that nothing is really in 4K right now. The transportation and storage method is not.
No. The real issue is the transportation and storage.
'We' work on 4K theatrical releases daily. They're stored uncompressed as image sequences on large disk arrays. Or alternatively as RED/Arri/Other digital files which require real-time de-bayering via a dedicated hardware card or GPU. We have the content.
It's relatively simple to deliver 4K theatrical releases to your local DCP. Delivering over air or cable will require superb (new) compression algorithms in to maintain acceptable quality whilst dramatically reducing data rate, perhaps aided by a local GPU within future televisions/decoders.
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I'm sorry, but that's simply not true. Have you any experiences to back up your claims?
My company is a time honoured user of Infortend Arrays - supported in the UK by European Raid Arrays (e-raid.co.uk).
A good number of the Soho Film industry in London runs on Infortrend RAIDs supplied by ERA.
We've never lost any data on the RAID as long as I've been here (5yrs+), had minimal drive failures and - I think - two PSU failures.
We have many TB of RAID and numerous RAIDs (FC, SCSI and SATA).
But then, we do keep them in suitable machine rooms.
Were you by any chance using yours as door-stops in your kitchen?
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