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Well said Robert, you made many of my points for me.
When I referred to the various benchamarks that digital needs to hit to match film, I was responding to the statement that the Viper replaces film.
Yes, economics are the driving factor in production. But there are still directors and DP's powerful enough to mandate their preferred format.
Regarding cables--on most shows I am on, we transmit the video tap to the monitors, making the cameras cable-free. The audio is also transmitted to director, scripty etc. via Comteks.
Moving the "video village" is time-consuming enough when it's just a couple of 8" monitors for viewing the tap image...magnified significantly when it's a full engineering station plus the big HD monitors etc.
I'll admit to being exceptionally biased against HD from a practical standpoint, being a Steadicam operator. We are now having to fly cables (for video out as well as audio on the occasion--yikes!), deal with oddly elongated camera masses AND perform wear the rig longer than before, since there aren't regular reloads nor restrictions on the length of shots.
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