[FCP-L] New Sony roadmap

Just got back from the Sony event in Hollywood. They showed a bit of
their roadmap on the high end stuff.

SR Stock prices will drop 25% starting with the small tapes.

SRW-9000 camera will be upgradeable to 35MM chip and their new SR
memory chip.

SR Memory chip is about the size of a laptop PC card. Where current
SxS cards have a sustained throughput of 800Mbps, the SR cards will
have a sustained throughput of 5Gbps! The first will hold 200Gigs with
a TB expected within a year or so. (Yeah I know, Soon Only Not Yet)

The SRW-5800 has an upgrade coming that will allow double speed
capture and output including MXF file format. Also an SR lite format
that will handle 220Mbps MPEG-4 in MXF. So you will have 220, 440 &
880 capability. Current decks are upgradeable.

The coolest thing for us is the a new Transcoder box. Pretty much
anything in & out in RT or double speed from SR decks. Including MXF,
DPX, J2K and DNxHD. So you can run a couple decks in at the same time
and spit out various formats with various burn ins. Couldn't get any
ship date or pricing info yet.
--
Terence Curren
Burbank, CA
www.alphadogs.tv
www.digitalservicestation.com

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