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| 04|01|2006 |
Jim FeeleyEvery year I join the spring pilgrimage to Las Vegas and worship at the shrine of unaffordable and unavailable equipment. Every NAB I’m impressed, inspired and frustrated; sometimes all by the same vendor... »
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| 03|01|2006 |
By Jim FeeleyI have here on my desk the remains of a V-Lite VHS videocassette. It was sent to my wife a few years ago, a promotional piece encouraging people to raise money for and run in a charity marathon.... »
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| 02|01|2006 |
By Jim FeeleyI’m in a dealer’s showroom, stuffed with equipment used by Hollywood DPs—ARRI cameras, DigiPrime lenses, etc. The owner shows me a prototype HD camera so new it’s still in an unopened box. ... »
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| 01|01|2006 |
By Jim FeeleyIn addition to the usual "get taxes done earlier" and "exercise more" resolutions we all set at the beginning of each year, let me suggest a few video-specific goals for 2006. The first few... »
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| 12|01|2005 |
By Jim FeeleyWe spend a lot of money on our tools. So my bank account and I are always eager to find inexpensive items that let me solve real production problems, sharpen my craft or make nice year-end gifts.... »
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| 11|01|2005 |
Jim FeeleyToday’s drastically lower barrier to entry for video production means every dude with a camcorder is a Director of Photography, every computer jockey with a purloined NLE is an editor and every loud mouth... »
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| 10|01|2005 |
Compiled by Bryant Frazer, Alison Johns, Beth Marchant and Linda RomanelloRemember what DV did for standard-definition video acquisition? Ostensibly a consumer format, it opened the door for more than just accelerated home-movie production. Now HDV, which was also introduced as a consumer format, is catching on.... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Pete PutmanI first started covering the portable projector industry back in 1991, which seems like a lifetime ago. It was big news when Epson and InFocus announced 640 x 480 front LCD projectors in late 1993 for about... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
By Peter PutmanFor me, InfoComm is traditionally the end of my trade show "silly season." But InfoComm is not just another show for me, what with all of the display and interface manufacturers in attendance and... »
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| 08|01|2005 |
By Jim FeeleyApple will jilt the PowerPC for what Steve Jobs claims will be a long-term commitment to Intel CPUs. With the talk I hear from many Mac faithful, you’d think that my conjugal metaphor is more than... »
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| 07|01|2005 |
By Pete PutmanAs I sit here in my studio and read the latest research and market price information on LCD and plasma monitors, I have to remind myself that only a decade ago, these products weren’t even a blip on... »
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| 07|01|2005 |
By Jim FeeleyRemember when low-cost HD cameras were $60,000 and cheap HD editing systems ran $150,000? With genuinely (if not universally) useful HD tools now available for less than a tenth of those prices, some corporate... »
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| 06|01|2005 |
By Jim FeeleyDuring my four days and four nights in the Nevada desert, I glimpsed both the Promised Land and the Tower of Babel on the NAB show floor. I saw inexpensive HD cameras from Panasonic and JVC, Apple and Avid... »
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| 05|01|2005 |
By Jim FeeleyOne of my favorite documentary filmmakers, direct cinema pioneer Robert Drew, frequently directed as half of a two-person crew, and usually while holding a microphone, not a camera. Although I like to shoot... »
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| 05|01|2005 |
By Peter PutmanOver the past 12 months, there has been a lot of talk about 2K imaging, both among the home theater and professional and commercial markets. There’s no question that native 2K (1920 x 1080) front projectors... »
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