Re: Is the HDX900 history?

Jan,
Thank you for your thorough reply on this Sunday AM. You answered many of my questions about the future of DVCPRO HD tape and other issues. You bring up a good point about Sony adopting a card based recording scheme despite having the XD disks.

My dream of Panasonic saying "we will support tape through 20XX" is unrealistic I admit. When the storage cost limitation is finally removed many of us will adopt the cards too. I am sure you have heard many times "if the P2 cards cost less we would gladly use them". That is only a matter of time-- every sector of information technology is searching for card based inexpensive storage. Someone will come up with a 64gig card made with a new technology that costs $100... someday.

Hats off to Panasonic for giving us more transparency than Sony ever did or ever will. Allowing Jan and others the latitude to comment on these forums is really amazing. No manufacturer will ever announce actual or projected product life cycles (that they themselves may not know), and getting information directly from a Product Manager is what customer support truly is.

For now I may try the Firestore 160 DVCPRO HD drive and see how that works out for projects I edit myself in HD. For SD projects I (try to) convert every call for Betacam SP to DVCPRO 50 using a SDX-900 that I bought just last October-- it has paid for itself more than twice over already. Thanks Panasonic!

Thank you,
George

George Griswold
www.videonow.info
New Orleans, Louisiana