Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:06 am
I can understand why they might want to impress on the NAB crowd early. I suspect the time schedule for parts availability and manufacture was tight, so they weren't worried. But the pocket 4k has wider sales potential past cinema or provideo, so maybe that could have something to do with it aswell. But, some firmer specs and sample footage shows how much of a contender it might be, to decide to wait and go with it. That's more what I was concerned with after specs were set.
What's happening is the 8k market is launching now, and may include some prosumer and consumer cameras. But things like a xc15 like cinema camera rumoured to be out this year (an xc20 for earlier in the year was rumored before the cinema announcement). So, undercutting the competition's demand before people commit to buying them, and getting them to want to buy you instead, is a tactic.
If you want to speak of delays etc, speak of Red. The scarlet fixed disappeared before launch after so many delays where they went from pocket to camcorder to the next version, the laser, what happened to the redray player, etc. The extra wide sensor has fiinaly come out in another family. Now the hydrogen phone, which was finished ages ago and delayed due to contract negotiations with telecos, just had a month delay due to one bit out of spec in an FCC test according to an article I read. So not last year, or year before. And the photos of the internals look unremarkable to me. So there you go. Do we see such a high ratio of hyped up people going on about how bad all these delays and things are, like around here, no. They have tens of thousands users there too. One can spend years waiting to buy a single Red cancelled product and never buy one (maybe I should buy a Red emblem and stick it on a pocket 4k, if I buy one). Would you do that with freinds? I met a local guy here who knows Jim. Oh, he was talking to him in his lounge room, oh what reverence. That person is ok, but some make me sick. Sicophants, rather than to have real respect. I mean surely ths Jim must be a nice guy, pretty great, so forth. But you think, by the way these guys act, he's paranormal or something.
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Wayne Steven on Mon Aug 13, 2018 2:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
aIf you are not truthfully progressive, maybe you shouldn't say anything
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cOften people deceive themselves so much they do not understand, even when the truth is explained to them