CinePorter vs P2

[Barry_Green]

if a P2 card is just a pcima card with SD's inside of it

Because it isn't. A P2 card is a PCMCIA card with four SDs in it, and a RAID controller, and a processor that has to receive and interpret about 40 different commands that the camera sends it. Heck, P2 cards even have their own firmware updates.

A simple memory reader doesn't work.

 

[palmerman]

Once you shoot and edit in HD.. you will almost never want to shoot SD again. When I jumped up to HVX... it needed to have the same freedom for production as the dvx. NO WIRES, CABLES etc. Needs to be able to travel and have me shoot it alone. I swear by my P2 Store. Without it the camera is useless unless you are shooting in a studio. That is not often for me. Three 4GB P2 Cards and a P2 Store... 4 batteries... and I can shoot 18 cards worth or roughly 180 minutes without downloading. Beat that.

 

[Indy]

THEN WHY ON EARTH WOULD I BUY ANY P2 CARDS?

Its my opinion that you've hit the nail on the head as to why all these hard disk solutions are so expensive.... compared to the sum of their parts. If HDD solutions were priced according to their costs it would KILL P2 cards stone dead, as such the prices are being artificially hiked to ensure P2 survival. I personally wouldn't be using P2 if there was a reasonably priced HDD solution.
Regards

Indy

 

[dregenthal]

. . . If HDD solutions were priced according to their costs it would KILL P2 cards stone dead, as such the prices are being artificially hiked to ensure P2 survival . . .

Well I'm not so sure about that.

I dropped one of my P2 cards the other day . . .
Let me see you do that with a hard drive.

Solid state rules!

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

Well I'm not so sure about that.

I dropped one of my P2 cards the other day . . .
Let me see you do that with a hard drive.

Solid state rules!

Haha, and P2 is supposedly water proof. You wont see me testing that one out.

 

[Barry_Green]

If HDD solutions were priced according to their costs it would KILL P2 cards stone dead, as such the prices are being artificially hiked to ensure P2 survival. I personally wouldn't be using P2 if there was a reasonably priced HDD solution.

Try one first. You may change your mind.

Besides, history would disagree with you. Microdrives (compactflash-equivalent hard disks) were developed to overcome the tiny sizes of solid-state memory. As soon as solid-state got big enough, people fled microdrives. Solid state is so much better than hard disks in every possible category except two: price per gig, and total # of gigs. Hard disk recorders are at the very best an interim solution fraught with their own sets of issues. They do some things P2 doesn't, and P2 does a whole lot of things they don't. But sooner or later P2 cards will get "big enough" (probably never as big as hard disks, but "big enough") and when that happens, I think you'll find that hard disk recorders are what gets killed "stone dead". It's already happened with compactflash and microdrives, and history will again repeat.