Re: Digi Beta decks

From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 17:20:42 PDT


> On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:56 PM, Alain LeTourneau wrote:
>
>> Got $14K?
>
> If you can get me one for $14K, I'll take a dozen. Try $30-35K used,
> maybe with the analog option. And one standard only per machine, thank
> you. Unless Sony has come to their senses and released an "industrial"
> line of decks that I don't know about. The "J" series playback only
> decks are in that price range, but they're pretty worthless for most
> applications.

Bill,

I was referring to the playback only deck (used), as that is the cheapest
option I could think of...for exhibition purposes not recording. But Pablo
just needs to rent a deck as it turns out...

> Who's got material on Digibeta? A lot of artists who work in or finish
> on video, use it for broadcast or archival purposes. It's pretty
> standard these days as a deliverable format for distribution.

I was genuinely curious about this, though my response might have betrayed
my sincerity (one of problems with email, no nuance). I've only talked to
a few artist who were distributing work on DigiBeta, and both were in
Germany. But then again I'm not talking to many folks about video work.

Alain

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