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Re: [DarrenS] The HDV Debate

KevinShaw
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Jan 31, 2006, 11:08 AM

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If I can operate a wildly successful bulletin board service for over five full years past it's Date Of Expiry ... I can certainly run a profitable wedding video business for the next few years with my investment in SD technology.

Probably so, but you'll be doing your customers a disservice if you don't at least offer them the option to record and deliver high-definition video. This isn't some trivial change we're talking about here: it's a significant increase in image quality combined with a switch from 4x3 to 16x9 viewing format, which is going to make typical SD video look very dated a few years from now. Making sensible business decisions during this transition is one thing, but any suggestion that one can safely ignore the HD revolution would be misguided. If you want the best and most lucrative customers, you should be planning how to offer HD wedding videos now, not a few years from now when people will expect HD quality from 'Uncle Charlie.'

RT Steele
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Jan 31, 2006, 12:07 PM

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which is going to make typical SD video look very dated a few years from now.

No question that SD will surely fade but it will be a slow death. There's just too much SD content out there and I doubt anybody will just throw it out one day.

And that slow death will be perpetuated by the media players that will still play all formats known formats (and then some).

- RT

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videobear
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Jan 31, 2006, 3:06 PM

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Aw, c'mon now, RT and kw...this is EXACTLY the sort of HDV debate I'm trying to limit, and you go and put it in my "limit the HDV debate" thread.

Going down for the third time on this one... Unsure

Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions

KevinShaw
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Jan 31, 2006, 3:26 PM

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I did my best to keep my comments constructive: there shouldn't be any doubt that HD is here to stay and is going to replace SD, so it's time to stop debating that and get on with figuring out how to make the transition. Sorry if that came across as perpetuating a pointless discussion.