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DV MasStor: DV FireWire storage, playback

updated 09:25 am EDT, Wed July 11, 2001

 
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ATDX today introduced its new DV MasStor Direct Recording Disk (DRD), which is designed for computer-less recording and play back of digital video in a random access format and offers FireWire connectivity and removable drive storage that supports up to 110 minutes of DV footage.

DV MasStor offers removable hard drives, an LCD panel, VCR-like controls for access to built-in features and a hard-wired remote control for control when connected to a camera. It supports AV/C(Audio Video Control) protocol for computer-based editing and is designed to run on the removable lithium ion rechargeable battery pack or the AC adapter. It is due at the end of the month for $2,500 and will be on display at Macworld Expo. [pdf]


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    firestore may be better

    http://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/firestore.htm

    this looks a little better, since you don't have to buy special storage drives; you can just use external firewire drives. but who knows? none of these products are even available.

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    Sounds expensive

    Unless I'm missing something, I can buy an iBook
    for $1300, add a 60 gig external firewire drive for
    $350 from transintl.com and use iMovie to record directly from a firewire input from any DV camera,
    realtime or from tape. Total cost, $1650, and I
    also get a full functional computer out of it.
    If you disconnect the firewire drive and take it over
    to your desktop editing station with Final Cut Pro,
    you've got everything this DVMastor appears to
    offer.

    I'm not saying a good offline recording and storage
    unit is a bad idea, I'm just saying this solution is
    pretty expensive. Also, the article doesn't say
    how much the cartridges cost.
    It says 110 minutes for their cartridge,
    (12 gigs equals an hour of DV). It looks like the
    cartridges are going to have to be pretty
    aggresively priced to match just buying firewire
    external drives.

    Dan

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    Why bother?

    DVR-Blue technology will be available shortly. It is a Blue/Violet laser around 400nm almost half the width of a red laser used in CD drives. This DVR-Blue tech is said to beable to hold 23gig on a single 12cm disk and thats single sided. TDK have already shown off their DVR-Blue media and say they will shortly be able to take the copacity upto 40-50gig. Thats around 4 hours of High Definition Digital Video.

    Sony has already demonstrated a DVR-Blue recorder. If they can fit 40-50 gig on a single 12cm disk im sure it wont be long until 23gig 8cm disks become available. Its not hard to imagine the use of smaller disks. Perhaps a likely candidid would be in Digital Video Cameras as a replacement for the DV tape storage. The disks would enable smaller cameras and provide a random access disk storage. The need for firewire would be less because a user could take the disk out of the camera and drop it in a DVR-Blue drive in the computer.

    Interesting times indeed.

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    Professional Media

    This has some professional media applications since it can play back live to air like a VTR. A digital disk recorder right now costs 25 grand, so these, if they work, will be just the ticket in smaller digital studios.

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    Re: Why Bother?

    Because the RIAA and MPAA had not figured on hard drives that fit in your pocket. Disks, and optical recorders have been harangued (sp?) and taxed and lobbied to death in congress to protect their oh-so-precious copywritten (read: extorted) music and movies.
    Have you noticed the onslaught of compilation music ads? Squeezin' every last ounce of blood they can.

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    Sounds...innovative

    I am sure there could be many uses for this new device. The ability to swap cartridges with another base units might be the answer for some.

    The random access sounds like a unique benefit and there will be people that have always hoped for that ability. How long does it take to find a scene on a tape that is buried somewhere in the middle surrounded by many other scenes?

    Hopefully the price will come down, but weren't laptops and video cameras expensive when they first came out?

    Three cheers for ADTX for being willing to innovate.

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