Re: Is the HDX900 history?

Peter,

I think you are thinking what many other people are thinking-- an affordable system with media that an be handed off and archived with no intermediate steps and pitfalls. Tape may be dead (or threatened), but its benefits are not forgotten; for some tape is still the best storage medium bar none.

The XDCAM with its instantly deliverable media is looking attractive to lots of folks. Despite its so-so compression it may become a widely used standard if for no other reason that you can buy an affordable NLE ingest deck. Added benefits: store field tapes right from camera to a shelf and field recordings can be safely handed to a client with your invoice. If the infrastructure develops to deliver file based content safely and easily the cards would work great. Producers may start traveling with hard drives and intake gear for P2?

I am glad to see I am not the only person who thinks that a sub $10K deck would be a winner. The sentiments here reflect what I was thinking to myself--- that the $20,000 AJ-1400 only serves to marginalize DVCPRO HD tape and sadly the HDX-900 camera. The 1394 connector will fortunately make the camera useful for years regardless of any present or future storage methods.

I was put off by the problems that people seemed to have with the FireStore drives, but I think they have worked out the bugs. May have to give that a try soon.

Thank you,
George

George Griswold
www.videonow.info
New Orleans, Louisiana