News posts from 2004 Q1

Rob Lohman · February 6th, 2004, 08:51 PM

Okay, now we are getting somewhere. They are using the RAID 3
standard which they are calling RAID-XL3. A bit confusing [all
those different things in the document, but okay]

First things first. Why use RAID at all? DV doesn't need RAID.
If you are using a fast ATA133 or SATA drive you will definitely
don't need RAID for DV if speed is your concern. A normal system
can keep up with the 3.6 MB/s datarate just fine [if you don't
have tons of applications running and defragment etc.].

So if it isn't for speed it must be for safety. Basically there WERE
(in the past) 2 options: RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 5 (parity).
Now we/they seem to have RAID 3 which is optimized for Video,
right?

I'm wondering why not simply use a mirrored drive then. That
will yield a higher protection rate (should be 100%) without the
loss of speed for writing (drives can write in parallel) and should
give increased speed reading.

I'm not saying that NetCell doesn't have a good product or
anything, I'm just wondering the why's and how's.

Also keep in mind that for most people RAID is a thing you don't
need (unless perhaps for realtime backups).

And I checked the Promise site and their line of RAID controllers
and they ARE hardware RAID controllers but they do not offer
this RAID3. They do offer striping (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1)
and parity (RAID 5) with some other modes (like RAID 10).

Just for everone's information....

Vincent Im · February 6th, 2004, 10:06 PM

Will, here's the average access time from THG's test results: http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/...etcell-12.html

Gary Bettan · February 10th, 2004, 08:41 AM

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Young Lee · February 12th, 2004, 11:02 PM

Maker Release 2.0 is available now from our website, for
Windows. The Mac version is about 2 weeks away.

Demo version: http://dvfilm.com/maker/preview.htm
Update to 2.0 from older versions: http://dvfilm.com/update

Here is a summary of the new features, which are of primary interest to NTSC users:

24P as well as 30P film-motion for NTSC 60i to 24P conversion for editing normal NTSC at 24 frames/sec 3:2 pulldown removal for editing 24P Normal or film telecine non-recompressed 2:3:3:2 pulldown insertion for archiving 24P to tape.

read/write Avid DV Quicktimes directly support for uncompressed AVI format YUV or RGB processing.

variable vertical blur on motion optional manual control of compression settings selectable output folder.

improved quickstart guide
pause/resume/minimize control during processing

Best Regards,
Marcus van Bavel

Christopher C. Murphy · February 16th, 2004, 07:29 AM

I got this off 2-pop.com!

JVC Expands HDV Product Line With VTR

Glenn Gipson · February 16th, 2004, 02:22 PM

>>Designed to playback material recorded with JVC's JY-HD10U camcorder, including HD and DV footage, built-in conversion allows HD footage to be viewed on virtually any monitor.<<

I wonder if it would work with PAL monitors...the only thing that keeps me from buying an HD10 is that I wont be able to sell my material to the PAL market.

Ken Tanaka · February 16th, 2004, 03:32 PM

Note: I substituted a link to the news item (at 2-pop) for the text of the announcement.

I remind everyone that copying news and articles from other sites is a violation of copyright laws and strictly prohibited here.

Lynne Whelden · February 16th, 2004, 08:13 PM

I wonder if you could hook up two of these and do cuts only linear editing..........???

Frank Goertzen · February 18th, 2004, 08:04 PM

http://www.io2technology.com, check out the videos under the "video/images" section, I don't think this has been posted here before. Very promising stuff.

Rob Lohman · February 19th, 2004, 05:34 AM

" The Heliodisplay (TM) projects TV, streaming video and computer images into free space (i.e. mid-air) "

Looks interesting!

Marco Leavitt · February 19th, 2004, 07:43 AM

Wow. That's pretty crazy stuff. Anybody have any theories on how the heck it works?

Chris Hurd · February 19th, 2004, 08:37 AM

The future is now, it seems. This is all they care to say about it, except to assert that it is definitely not holography.

Andreas Fernbrant · February 19th, 2004, 02:56 PM

I can't really say I believe what they say. Looks too unserious to my eyes. Why does he have this high tech gadget in his garage with shovels and other garden instruments?

Nah, I think it's a hoax...

Marco Leavitt · February 19th, 2004, 03:36 PM

It never occurred to me that someone would pull a stunt this weird. What's the point? I would say that their contact info is sure odd.

http://www.io2technology.com/contact.htm

Andreas Fernbrant · February 19th, 2004, 05:41 PM

Why? A hoax is still a hoax, perhaps they get a kick out of getting loads of questions about their "invention". To the public they would seem smart and important. To produce the video they do (on their site) would take a day to do... (3D Graphics) and is not very hard at all to do..

The movie where he demonstrates the touch function there is a dot that is suppoed to track his finger, but it does not fully match, the dot goes a lot longer then he moves it fingers and sometimes it does not, how does the dot know when it needs to move further then other times to change the larger dots?

And if it where true, woud it not get more media attention?
what they do seem to me is next to impossible. The air would need to stream out of the box at an extreme rate (one could tanselate that to frame rate) because as I kind of understood the invention it lets air travle trough 2 ionized plates and out on the top. the plates would have to arrange the air atoms really fast and blow them out on top. And I kind of figured that if they can alter atoms like that they could easaly build a real car with the same technology only alter the atoms into real materials instead of images. Nanotechnology. If you do a quick search you get no good pages to read about it.

This is only my opinion, don't take my word for it, figure it out for yourself :)

February 6th, 2004, 08:51 PM	#31
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	Okay, now we are getting somewhere. They are using the RAID 3 standard which they are calling RAID-XL3. A bit confusing [all those different things in the document, but okay] First things first. Why use RAID at all? DV doesn't need RAID. If you are using a fast ATA133 or SATA drive you will definitely don't need RAID for DV if speed is your concern. A normal system can keep up with the 3.6 MB/s datarate just fine [if you don't have tons of applications running and defragment etc.]. So if it isn't for speed it must be for safety. Basically there WERE (in the past) 2 options: RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 5 (parity). Now we/they seem to have RAID 3 which is optimized for Video, right? I'm wondering why not simply use a mirrored drive then. That will yield a higher protection rate (should be 100%) without the loss of speed for writing (drives can write in parallel) and should give increased speed reading. I'm not saying that NetCell doesn't have a good product or anything, I'm just wondering the why's and how's. Also keep in mind that for most people RAID is a thing you don't need (unless perhaps for realtime backups). And I checked the Promise site and their line of RAID controllers and they ARE hardware RAID controllers but they do not offer this RAID3. They do offer striping (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1) and parity (RAID 5) with some other modes (like RAID 10). Just for everone's information.... __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

February 10th, 2004, 08:41 AM	#33
Gary Bettan Sponsor: Electronic Mailbox Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Glen Cove, NY Posts: 758	Thanx a million - make it 4! On February 9th, just after 5PM when we closed for the day, Videoguys.com had our 4 millionth visitor!! We hit the 3 million mark in August '02 - that works out to 1 million visitors in about a year and a half! We're proud to be the #1 destination on the Web for digital videographers all over the world! Thanx to all 4 million of you. Without you, we could never have become the worlds leading reseller of affordable digital video editing gear!! Gary Videoguys.com 800 323-2325 We are the Desk Top Video Editing and DVD Production Experts! Subscribe to the Videoguys' Insider Newsletter http://www.videoguys.com/insider.html __________________ Check out http://www.videoguys.com 800 323-2325 We are the video editing and live video production experts! DV InfoNet members save 5%! Use Coupon Code DVINFO5OFF

February 16th, 2004, 07:29 AM	#35
Christopher C. Murphy Trustee Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,707	HDV VTR player/recorder deck announced! I got this off 2-pop.com! JVC Expands HDV Product Line With VTR __________________ Christopher C. Murphy Director, Producer, Writer

February 16th, 2004, 03:32 PM	#37
Ken Tanaka Retired DV Info Net Almunus Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 6,943	Note: I substituted a link to the news item (at 2-pop) for the text of the announcement. I remind everyone that copying news and articles from other sites is a violation of copyright laws and strictly prohibited here. __________________ Lady X Films: A lady with a boring wardrobe...and a global mission. Hey, you don't have enough stuff! Buy with confidence from our sponsors. Hand-picked as the best in the business...Really! See some of my work one frame at a time: www.KenTanaka.com

February 18th, 2004, 08:04 PM	#39
Frank Goertzen Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ontario Posts: 43	io2Technology Video/Images Release http://www.io2technology.com, check out the videos under the "video/images" section, I don't think this has been posted here before. Very promising stuff. __________________ Patiently Waiting

February 6th, 2004, 10:06 PM	#32
Vincent Im New Boot Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sunnyvale, CA Posts: 19	Will, here's the average access time from THG's test results: http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/...etcell-12.html

February 12th, 2004, 11:02 PM	#34
Young Lee Major Player Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 268	Maker Release 2.0 is available now from our website, for Windows. The Mac version is about 2 weeks away. Demo version: http://dvfilm.com/maker/preview.htm Update to 2.0 from older versions: http://dvfilm.com/update Here is a summary of the new features, which are of primary interest to NTSC users: 24P as well as 30P film-motion for NTSC 60i to 24P conversion for editing normal NTSC at 24 frames/sec 3:2 pulldown removal for editing 24P Normal or film telecine non-recompressed 2:3:3:2 pulldown insertion for archiving 24P to tape. read/write Avid DV Quicktimes directly support for uncompressed AVI format YUV or RGB processing. variable vertical blur on motion optional manual control of compression settings selectable output folder. improved quickstart guide pause/resume/minimize control during processing Best Regards, Marcus van Bavel

February 16th, 2004, 02:22 PM	#36
Glenn Gipson Major Player Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Plainfield, New Jersey Posts: 927	>>Designed to playback material recorded with JVC's JY-HD10U camcorder, including HD and DV footage, built-in conversion allows HD footage to be viewed on virtually any monitor.<< I wonder if it would work with PAL monitors...the only thing that keeps me from buying an HD10 is that I wont be able to sell my material to the PAL market.

February 16th, 2004, 08:13 PM	#38
Lynne Whelden Major Player Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: williamsport, pa Posts: 604	I wonder if you could hook up two of these and do cuts only linear editing..........???

February 19th, 2004, 05:34 AM	#40
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	" The Heliodisplay (TM) projects TV, streaming video and computer images into free space (i.e. mid-air) " Looks interesting! __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

February 19th, 2004, 07:43 AM	#41
Marco Leavitt Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Albany, NY 12210 Posts: 2,652	Wow. That's pretty crazy stuff. Anybody have any theories on how the heck it works?

February 19th, 2004, 08:37 AM	#42
Chris Hurd Obstreperous Rex Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: San Marcos, TX Posts: 27,368 Images: 513	The future is now, it seems. This is all they care to say about it, except to assert that it is definitely not holography. __________________ CH Search DV Info Net \| 20 years of DVi \| ...Tuesday is Soylent Green Day!

February 19th, 2004, 02:56 PM	#43
Andreas Fernbrant Major Player Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sweden - Helsingborg Posts: 283	I can't really say I believe what they say. Looks too unserious to my eyes. Why does he have this high tech gadget in his garage with shovels and other garden instruments? Nah, I think it's a hoax...

February 19th, 2004, 03:36 PM	#44
Marco Leavitt Inner Circle Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Albany, NY 12210 Posts: 2,652	It never occurred to me that someone would pull a stunt this weird. What's the point? I would say that their contact info is sure odd. http://www.io2technology.com/contact.htm

February 19th, 2004, 05:41 PM	#45
Andreas Fernbrant Major Player Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sweden - Helsingborg Posts: 283	Why? A hoax is still a hoax, perhaps they get a kick out of getting loads of questions about their "invention". To the public they would seem smart and important. To produce the video they do (on their site) would take a day to do... (3D Graphics) and is not very hard at all to do.. The movie where he demonstrates the touch function there is a dot that is suppoed to track his finger, but it does not fully match, the dot goes a lot longer then he moves it fingers and sometimes it does not, how does the dot know when it needs to move further then other times to change the larger dots? And if it where true, woud it not get more media attention? what they do seem to me is next to impossible. The air would need to stream out of the box at an extreme rate (one could tanselate that to frame rate) because as I kind of understood the invention it lets air travle trough 2 ionized plates and out on the top. the plates would have to arrange the air atoms really fast and blow them out on top. And I kind of figured that if they can alter atoms like that they could easaly build a real car with the same technology only alter the atoms into real materials instead of images. Nanotechnology. If you do a quick search you get no good pages to read about it. This is only my opinion, don't take my word for it, figure it out for yourself :)