DV Info Net - XD Cam HD...Worth the price?

Nate,

I sent your link of the XDCAM concert footage to our Austin City Limits crew. I think it looks fantastic

The HDNET spec sheet you're looking at and the other tech info is for their trucks and studio stuff for in-house productions on HDNet.

HDNet Movies (a seperate thing that I'd want my film to be on) is mostly content provided by large studios which originated on 35mm film. They also sometimes broadcast things made by HDNet Films out of New York. Like Bubble, which was HDCam at 1440 (an exception to their rule). The 1920 rule is for capture, not broadcast. Does that make sense.? it's late.

They're 2 seperate things run by 2 sets of people with 2 sets of specs (and all of the politics that happen between engineers and production). Maybe from the same Denver building. Or, I'd like to think from Mark Cuban's personal rocketship flying loopdeeloops over the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Again, as I understand it, the 1920 rule is at capture, not broadcast. It'd be great to have a shot at selling my feature to them. If the HD XDCAM stuff is good enough for PBS and Discovery, it should be good enough for every broadcaster.

We have a couple of SR decks upstairs which we use to master things. I don't have the money at the moment, but I am diiiiiiing to transfer the finished film over to the SRs and get the color correction done from that master.

Anyone want to loan me thousands of dollars?

But... there is really no need to do this for projection in Landmark theaters. You just send them an mpeg2 file. So, you know, that's nice.