looks very interesting and if the announced SSDs really will be "very competitively priced" it seems that it's way cheaper to pimp a FS700 than with the original Sony recorder. Additionaly you get a monitor with focus assist, YRGB waveform, histogram, false color, vectorscope & zebras
Even if its just the monitor, $1299 for an oled with scopes is more than half the price of smallhd's dp7pro sx with probably the same oled panel. I know which one I'd rather buy.
Edit: I didn't realise smallhd have a cheaper dp7 pro version for $1999. That's still a lot more for the same monitor features.
I have huge doubt about price cuts. As they are selling MONITORS and are tight shut about recording options.
So this is like Smallhd's top of the range oled monitor but at a lower price and with the option of it becoming a video recorder? This is just the thing to bring massive price cuts across the whole high end monitor spectrum. A very black magic thing to do.
Price of the Odyssey7Q will be $2295 in US.
Both the Odyssey7 and Odyssey7Q are monitors only, but both can be upgraded to record via extra cost options. The Odyssey7 records a maximum of one video stream, and the Odyssey7Q supports up to four video streams.
The Odyssey7 records a maximum of one video stream, and the Odyssey7Q supports up to four video streams.
Scheduled for July 2013.
So it's just begging for a hack! ;-)
Very interesting piece of kit. This approach 'could' shift the market, although the cynic in me thinks not. Either way, utility pricing within technology is taking place all around us, so why not hardware? Just look at our beloved GH2, capable of so much more, but Panasonic won't unleash it because it's a fixed price unit with a finite usage and shelf life.
I'd love a camera manufacturer to come out and offer a utility priced piece of hardware. £10/month for 2k/60p or 4:2:2 etc... Obviously hardware has to support it, but most stuff is intentionally crippled these days. Bravo Convergent Design, bravo!
They even told something that you could rent recording time on your purchased thing. I mean really, pay for few hours key, after this it turns back to monitor only.
No prices for the 'downloadable upgrades?' So its basically itunes app store mentality here?
Those are some mean specs and a very reasonable price point.
First, it is all preliminary and price point is for monitor only.
Those are some mean specs and a very reasonable price point.
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