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HAPPY
FOURTH
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Uh...
your meister needs 3
or 4 volunteers... one to
shoot a 24p
Pana, one to shoot Sony's TRV950 & 1
to shoot the JVC 300Y Streamcaster at his son's Aug 10th
wedding on Kauai... achem! Needless to say
there will be
lots of residual publicity involved in this shootout...
serious, well experienced videographers
encouraged to reply! New Canon XM/GL
expected.
Canon
GL-2 is NOW
here!
Anyway,
Contact me HERE.
This
Canon XM2/GL2
MAY BE AT the Kauai wedding!
24p
here
in 90 days!
Meisters....
read my lips, The Above Cam... is the finest DV Camcorder
ever made available to pro-sumers... TO DATE !
Period.
You
go to your favorite video camcorder source this Holiday
Season
and see a Canon XL-1s, Sony DSR-PD10 or a TRV950 or even the
new
JVC GY-DV300... and you say to your self... what is the best
damn cam
for the bucks today? What has the best image, best
sound, looks the
most professional, works best with ANY computer, can transfer
to the
best looking customer tapes be it wedding VHS or DVD demo for
my
company's image or even "can be transferred directly to
motion 35mm
film?" 24p my meisters... it is a s simple as
that and you don't need to
take my word or any other reviewer's word... just see
for your self, it's
as simple as that... seeing will be believing in this go
around. Even Your
family or Your customers will think you spent boo-coo bucks.
If you
ever switch to a Digital TV screen... even YOU will be amazed
at You !
Amen to that...
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Want a peek at the future in
camcorders... say a year or two ?
OK dv-meisters... There IS a
proto-type camcorder floating around
the Beta Test circuit... it is NOT by any of the majors
like Pana, JVC
or even Sony... it has little or NO moving parts...
here's why. It has
a 3 to 6 hour storage... it does not Need a battery,
unless you call a
watch battery a battery! So you do not need to charge it
every five
seconds or worry about running out of precious battery, it's
capable
of charging in about an hour & last a day, charge in a day
& seemingly
last a week... really. It has no motors, no tape, no
spinning disc or
spinning anything... it is all solid state... a sort
of... flash memory chip.
It's High-Def, but it does have in addition to a single
FireWire port
a USB in and out pair of sockets, an S-video socket and
a BNC socket.
It comes without a lens. I was told 'C' mount
types will eventually
be fitted. It tested with a Fujinon lens but I was told there
are also other
options available such as Leica, Zeiss and even Century
that will also
work! Weighs only a few pounds. It had
a bronze chromatic finish
BTW and it was said to only cost about $3400 with
OUT the lens.
It Will come packaged with the 'C' mount adapter.
Can be hand held
with a new never seen before stabilizer of some sort,
shoulder mount
with an optional adapter and has the ability with
another optional
accessory to automatically reload itself with a new 6
hour chip
"On the Fly memory!!" I was told two to two
and half years away
from mass distribution but the plant looked like about a
year away...
but what the hell do I know about plant assembly lines?
I was told by
3 individuals three different expected prices from $1499
to $3499,
take your pick ! More here later...
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Maybe an OLED to hang on your
living room or Video editing wall this holiday?
I have been told three company's are ready!
Read
Below..
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Here
Come The 2002 OLED TV's !!!!!
Tokyo June
15th Reuters: Sony & Samsung announced today the
beginning production of TV set OLED's for 2003 Holidays.
This was
on the heels of yesterday's Epson/Cambridge announcement of
OLED third quarter 2002 for Laptop / Notebook screens up to
14".
Cooler (no heat) and lighter (one ounce for every pound a
Plasma screen) and far cheaper ( 1/8th to 1/9th the price)
OLED's will be marching over the display landscape to over
take all tube, all plasma and even all projection sales four
years into production the Samsung spokesman said.
Several manufacturing giants, including Sanyo Electric,
Samsung Electronics and a unit of Pioneer, are working on OLED
screens using so-called "small molecule" technology
developed by Eastman Kodak. Cambridge Display has an
alternative polymer technology that, while still less
developed than Kodak's, could overcome cost and size hurdles
posed by vacuum deposition used in the small molecule
process.
Sanyo and Kodak began making OLED screens with small-molecule
technology at a plant in Japan earlier this year and have
already begun shipments to customers (1st quarter 2002).
Sanyo plans to use the screens in
cell phones this August. Motorola has had it's first OLED cell
phone on the market five months now and Sony's begins
next week with Nokia to follow next month in a test market.
Unlike LCDs,
however, OLEDs emit light directly and do not require a back
light, allowing a lighter-weight display that is barely
thicker than a credit card.
meister says...
"Thus a cell phone could drop in
half it's weight and a Laptop go below a half an inch thick
for the first time. Imagine a 2004 Laptop @ 4 lbs
running over 4GHz, 2GB RAM & storage for a 1,000 GB's (1
tera-flop) !
Oh, @ $1999
!
" 
Its brighter colors and
faster response time also make it a promising choice for
televisions and any other product that displays moving
pictures.
Initially, OLED screens will
likely be limited to cellphones and other mobile devices in
which space is at a premium.
In the longer term, Sony
& Samsung SDI are among those betting that OLEDs' better
picture quality will make them a hit for TVs & computer
screens.
Sony, which currently plans to use small-molecule technology,
hopes to have TV-sized OLEDs in mass production by the end of
next year.
And most expect that OLEDs
and LCDs will co-exist with the overall market.
As technology improves,
prices fall and consumers become increasingly keen on sleeker,
less space-hungry screens, analysts and executives expect the
markets for all major flat-panel technologies, including LCDs,
OLEDs and plasma displays, will see double- and triple-digit
growth rates for years to come
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The
August Wedding and Event Videographer's show in Vegas
will have all your
favorite 3 CCD camcorders on display for you to see,
handle and a Shoot Out to
compare the camcorders against each other.... Bally's
Casino & Convention Hall.
This WILL include the 24p but Not the MX5000, both Sony
TRV950 consumer
and the pro-sumer PD10 version,
Canon MAY Introduce a New
GL-2 !! I want to see what happens 1st July
New GL has improved battery life, 2 Channel manual over
ride audio & MMC card.
Still nothing on a improve XL-2 pro model
surprise from Canon... just yet despite what the reps
are saying; also the new JVC Stream Caster is running
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This
section is for my NON usual readers, the newbies that just
arrived here on the Cyber Surfer express & also my non
believers.... I said above despite Canon reps statements
to the contrary there will more than likely be NO new Canon DV
camcorders at the WEVA expo this August meaning no XL-2 &
GL-2 for 2002.... It's apparent some do not understand the
wisdom and history of the chuckmeister. Just because we have
been told there will be a new XL series for the new
millennium; over one and half years ago! Does not mean it is
so. Seen any XL-2's laying around? Don't think so.
Just because Canon could have brought out their GL-2 to
compete with Sony's TRV950 does not mean it will happen.
There is a lot of red ink bleeding in the video industry back
home in Japan where the economy is in the virtual 'TANK' and
looks like will continue to at least first quarter 2003
according to the Tokyo Economist. When I say there Will
Be No MX3000 by Pana USA or Canon will NOT launch a new
replacement... I am in fact using the bully pulpit to
encourage the EXACT opposite... it is called 'saving face' and
most American Businesses haven't a clue as to what that non
Enron term means. I could care less if I am proved wrong
and Canon all of a sudden brings out a GL2 or XL2
because... We WIN!
So why didn't Pana 'Get It' with the missed golden opportunity
of the MX3000 or Now the MX5000? Simple... Market
stupidity and stubbornness on a now fired ex - Japan based
white collar employee. Happens all the time. Where
is our promised Sony PC series 3CCD DVC-PC3000 ? On the ash
heap of fail opportunities and market miscalculations. I
said it was a good design, little heavy but very compact and a
great competitor to their Pana Palmcorder 3CCD MX3000... seen
any Sony PC3000's laying around? Stupid, stupid, stupid. I was
once told over ten years ago that the reason Japan got color
viewfinders and none were being sent to the states was 'the
foreigners would not go for that kind of concept!'
Go figure with that mentality. Want a more recent
example? Interchangeable lenses. We can't have any
of THAT, " look how bad the XL-1 Canon sales have
fared." Could not have anything to do with a five
thousand dollar price tag... oh nooo! More stupidity ! This is
all Classic comedian Bill Cosby's statement of Brain Damaged
children! The next time I say This will not get over here or
we Won't be getting This or a That, instead of e-mailing me
'boy meister you sure are wrong on this issue' just take the
time and cut and paste my wild & crazy pontifications and
yell at the US camcorder companies and complain and whine and
demand some action... they may not have the guts to complain
back to the Japan home office, but they will gladly send your
statements back home since they'll not get fired for what You
have to say Ok? Lesson over.
New Azden
DV cam wireless mic's
for great Digital AUDIO !
extremely well with the new DV Digital 3CCD cams in
Digital Audio capture !
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The latest on
Editing Video Laptop Computers: ALL
HERE
Really!
Remote, Memory
Stick, 15.7" UXGA, 4 USB & 2 S-Video ports
(In/Out)
And Has DUAL
COMBO DVD /
CD-RW Burners !
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Specifications:
- Processor:
Intel Pentium4 Northwood 2.4 GHz
- Memory 1GB
266Mhz DDR SDRAM
512KB On-die L2 Cache
Bios
4MB Flash ROM BIOS
Disk Storage
- Hard Disk Drive:
PCI Local Bus Interface
Detachable 2.5” 9.5mm Hard Disk Drive
Supports Ultra DMA HDD for High Speed Access
- Floppy Disk Drive
Removable 3.5” 1.44MB Floppy Disk Drive
- Display:
15.0 UXGA TFT 1600x1200
64MB DDR SGRAM
AGP 4X
ATi Mobility M7-P (Radeon7500)
Dual-View Display Capability
CRT Resolution up to 1600x1200x16M
- DVD or CD-ROM Drive
Detachable 24X CD-ROM
Interchangeable with 8X DVD-ROM, 8X CD-R/6X CDRW,
DVD/CD-RW Combo drive ATAPI Interface
- Audio System:
Built-in 3D Sound System
S/PDIF Digital output(5.1 CH) for DVD content
Audio DJ Access Front Panel
1 Built-in Microphone
2 Built-in Speakers
- PCMCIA Slot:
PCMCIA 3.0 Standard Compliant
1 Type II PCMCIA Slot
- Pointing Device:
Integrated Trackpad With Scroll Up/Down key
- Keyboard:
107-key Membrane
2 Hot keys
Integrated with Hot Keys for LCD Brightness,
Suspend,
Panel/CRT Display
3 Hot Keys for E-Mail, Web Browser. And AP-Key
- Interface:
Infrared Communication, FIR, SIR and ASK Compliant
1 Parallel Port, with ECP/EPP Support
1 External Keyboard Port
1 External CRT Port
4 USB Ports
3 Audio Jacks for Microphone-in / Headphone out /
Optical S/PDIF out
1 RJ-45 LAN
1 RJ-11 Modem
1 Mini-IEEE 1394 Fire Wire
TWO S-video TV
ports
In & Out !
- Power System
4hr Lithium-Ion Battery
Full Range Auto-Switching 100V/240V AC Adapter
Power Management
System Management Mode (SMM)
Suspend to HDD / DRAM
Full features of SMI Power Management, Doze,
Sleep,
Suspend/Resume Mode
- Physical Characteristics:
(H) x (W) x (D) : 1.7"x13"x11.4"
Weight: 6.9 lbs
- SmartBay Options:
Second Battery
Second CD-Rom
Second DVD-Rom
Second CD-R/RW
Second DVD/CDRW Combo !!
- Standard Options:
Numeric Keypad
external IEEE 1394 HDD
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