NAB 2005 - a bit disappointed 2005-04-21 - By Andre DeAngelis
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Sure. Though D2's site is very sparse at the best of times. In fact,
it must be one of the worst sites around IMHO.
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
Of Will Mendez
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:48 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: RE: NAB 2005 - a bit disappointed
Perhaps more detailed info will follow at a later point in time, D2's
site does not even have any details as of yet.
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Of Andre DeAngelis
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:43 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: RE: NAB 2005 - a bit disappointed
A very good observation Luc-Eric.
No one is even getting excited about the "real time" 4K stuff from
Nucoda. Freakish when you consider the buzz surrounding the
anticipation the Spirit 4K Film Scanner was creating at NAB in 2002! The
mere fact that Ciprico are still around would be news to me. ;-) Who
would have thought that 4K would even be possible on a Wintel platform
back then?
As for Toxic, it was announced a few weeks back (after a lot of
anticipation), so I would have expected some blurb on people's
impression of it first hand. Deep down, I'm sure enthusiasts are
quietly confident that Autodesk will get a reality check and drop the
pretensions that Toxic is somehow only useful if purchased in packs of
5.
But the Nuke thing does interest me for a number of reasons. Even if
the XSI/Nuke connectivity is bare bones, there mere fact that there's a
relationship being courted between D2Software and Avid deserves a
mention IMHO.
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf
Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 12:41 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: RE: NAB 2005 - a bit disappointed
yeah, .. it looks like the applications are getting
old and the big HD push is pretty much over
(after several years of false starts).
Also smaller companies have been aquired or
gone bankrupt. Expect the same thing at siggraph.
With regards to SymphonyNitris or Toxik there is no way
it can get the same amount of web/magazine
buzz, since they're unaffordable to prosumers.
These things are sold by handshakes rather than
press releases and buzz.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Andre DeAngelis
>
> Yes I did check Luc-Eric,
>
> Perhaps you didn't read my follow up post (absent the typos). I
> commented that news in general coming out of NAB has been very lean
> this year - not just news pertaining to Avid/Softimage. I don't
> think anyone
> (apart from Luke) was expecting anything of significance 3D
> wise, though
> I would have thought that some coverage of the collaboration between
> Softimage and D2 would deserved a mention.
>
> Even if there is a trend to moving away from bombarding the web with
> announcements and press releases, there is usually some buzz
> surrounding one product or another each year, and this year seems to
> be devoid of that too.
>
> When Combustion was released it got a lot of publicity and I
> can't find
> word of Toxic anywhere.
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Luc-Eric Rousseau
>
> I'm hoping companies are catching on that
> when tons of companies make announcements a trade
> show, only the top 5 of them are being reported
> by the press, and probably only the top 2 are being
> remembered.
>
> We do have NAB info on softimage.com, did you check
> before posting this?
>
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: Andre DeAngelis
> >
> > Thanks for the links Will, but with all due respects, why do
> > we have to
> > go to a reseller's web site to find out what Softimage are
> > doing at NAB?
> > Wouldn't XSIBASE be a more suitable forum?
> >
> > Anyway, my point was that in general, it's near impossible
> to find out
> > anything that is going on at NAB this week.
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