This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] I read the news today, oh boy,..

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] I read the news today, oh boy,..

On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Richard Tibbetts wrote:

> Those are such excellent points Ben. Too bad they won't fit on a T-shirt. (-;
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Ha!
Well, maybe if I fill both the front and back . . . . ?

B

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> On Jun 12, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@ContactBen.com> wrote:
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> > I had the good fortune to talk with Terry Curren about this 4K stuff this afternoon. 4K+ makes perfect sense to me for acquisition and archiving so that content can be repurposed and/or reformatted in the future . . . but where's the bandwidth/throughput for 2K, 4K+ broadcast and DVDs (and the web) in the foreseeable future? I'm practically untethered from cable-tv now, getting the majority of my content over the web. That's the future. We'd need some pretty big pipes.
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> > And as Terry mentioned today, what's the visual gain to the home viewer, watching on a reasonably average size monitor (60" and smaller)? Are viewers 6 inches from the monitor? Are they going to actually make monitors so huge (for home viewing) that the difference between HD and 4K can even be perceived?
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> > What say you, denizens of the L2?
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> > On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:58 PM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > > What Snookie is going to be in 4K? Oh wait you said snooker. But just think of the possibilities. Maybe they could re release Pauly Shore in 4K, "Hey Buuuuudy" in must see 4K TV!!!!!
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> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > > > 3D is dead again? Boy, I didn't see that coming.... ;-P
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> > > > PS: Now they are going to try to shove 4K down our throats. All in a vain attempt to snooker the consumer into ditching his perfectly good HD TV.
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> > > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Richard Tibbetts <huipro@> wrote:
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> > > > > Today, ESPN announced they are ditching their 24hr/day 3D channel, after pouring $$$ into it for the last 3 years. At the same time, BestBuy debuts its exciting new line of 4K Ultra HDTV's, (for a mere $5,000-7,000 each) using the brilliant tag line, "make.believe".
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> > > > > I heard there was also some kinda news out of apple this week? ;-)
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> > > > > Ho-hum. Just another day on the Avid-L.
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