Re: Is P2 really going to make it?

Lets be real here, shooters use digibeta because they own it and know it, their clients want it because the shooters are selling it to them. If they all owned P2 Hi-def cameras they wouldn't be pitching digibeta shoots! How are they going to supply hi-def coverage/footage with digibeta? Do you really think they will retire rather than use new equipment? Everything is changing and its happening now.

Rent a Sony Camera - what will it be? HDV? XDCAMHD? HDCAM? HDCAMSR? D5? supply the client a DV tape or an XD disc or a HDCAM tape and then watch them rush out to spend $3000/10,000/100,000 (nz) on a deck to ingest and output it. I don't think so. Shoot P2 to a hardrive for them, they know what it is, they own the hardware to use it and they know that it has DVCPRO/HD on it. How many HDCAM decks are in your immmediate area and how many laptops are in your immediate area?

P2 can be difficult to get your head around but how straightforward is the Sony situation? P2 cards are expensive but how cheap are the alternatives?

PCMCIA is being made out to be an older interface but it's irrelevant, P2 cards are specialist equipment, hook one up to a expresscard slot with an adapter and it ingests twice as fast as a PCMCIA interface anyway, they were designed for higher speeds than a PCMICA bus offers. They are way over spec'd for the task, they are being written to at 100mbps but they can be written to at 200 or 300 in future.

Just my thoughts, hope it helped.