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I don't know how many people know what i talk about half the time. Right now i had to figure out how an asyncronous FIFO works because of all the different clock speeds in my camera head. I doubt many people know what a fifo is, oh well.
You are so right on the big companies. At any minute they could go and build something like what i'm designing and have it designed, built, and tooled up for production in a couple of months. But broadcast gear has a set price, and within the industry it is a taboo to break that price point to quickly. Give the masses HD to fast and they destroyed 10 years of profit.
If someone came out with a hard drive recorder like the one i have in the pipelines and sold it for less than 10k I think it would be chaos in the industry, and some really large companies would be really angry. I like that though because that is what i want to do. I'm only building the camera head because I need something cost effective for the deck idea now (and learning about the data flow and how to overcome similar problems in the design such as different clock speeds and stuff), but IMO the deck will be the big thing for this design because even if people don't want the head, they can get an ikegami HDL-40 or a sony HDX300 and for 20-25k would have a camera that you destroy all hdcam and dvcpro hd cameras at the same price.
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