Westinghouse to catch RED vision?

[Windjammer]

If this isn’t a match made in heaven, then I don’t know what is. Imagine Westinghouse’s new V562D1 2K monitor (see link below) hooked up to a prototype RED camera at NAB.

http://tinyurl.com/njlho

Mr. Jannard, do all you can to get your hands on this monitor, bring it to your NAB booth and show us what full motion 2K RED video looks like. While I’m sure the NAB info/specs of the RED camera will rock the industry – showing actual 2K full motion video will burry everyone (in a friendly sort of way).

As an aside, this is what bothered me with Panasonic’s presentation of their new HVX-200 HD camera. For MONTHS (and still to this day) Panasonic never tells us how many pixels are on the CCD. Instead they said, “Pixel count doesn’t matter – it’s how well the image looks.” Well at the DV-Expo West last December, Panasonic had the camera for everyone to look and play with, but they never showed us what the images really looked like except for very tiny 720p monitors - hardly a way to really judge how well the image really looks. It would had been easy to bring in large 1080 monitors/projectors. But at the main presentation, of the camera, they mainly hyped their P2 stuff. For me it was a disappointment. I want to SEE IN IT'S FULL GLORY what kind of image this camera can record and put out.

So Jim, if you can, please show us some actual RED footage on the best, biggest, largest screen you can get your hands on.

-Windjammer

[donatello]

i too found the HVX 200 only connected to 17" LCD screens at DV expo..

looking back to DV expo 2004 - sony with their HDV -they had it on many different size monitor's AND you could go up stairs and view it on a 20+ ft wide screen ( sony 2k digital projector ) - sony wasn't trying to hide any HDV artifacts !!! ...

if i do recall panasonic makes excellent large venue digital projectors - seems like a perfect way to show it's the IMAGE not pixel count ?

[Jannard]

I have mentioned in previous posts that we will show non-working prototypes at NAB and share specs and prices. I do not expect that we will show footage until the early fall. At that time you can bet we will show footage on the largest possible screen/monitor/projection combiinations possible.

Jim

[Windjammer]

Well, even if you cannot show actual footage shot from a RED camera. How about showing what the video might look like? Similar to what you have on your site now, which is a still image. At the show, you could show large format 60p footage streaming from a monster powerful PC - thus showing us as a reference what a 4k, 2k motion video looks like in comparison to vanilla 1080p footage.

[The Machinist]

As an aside, this is what bothered me with Panasonic’s presentation of their new HVX-200 HD camera. For MONTHS (and still to this day) Panasonic never tells us how many pixels are on the CCD. Instead they said, “Pixel count doesn’t matter – it’s how well the image looks.”

Ummm....

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=47570&highlight=pixel+specs

These specs were released weeks ago. And pixel count doesn't really matter in the end when the image looks breathtaking.

[Windjammer]

Thanks for the link. Glad to know the truth.

-Windjammer