Kichigai Mentat

Thankee amazing Engagdget editors!

I would be greatly appreciative to receive such an item, now that my family has an HDTV.

I'm the tech manager on a campus TV station, and our issue is managing files in such a way that everyone will be able to access the files, making sure all formats work with all other formats (people are exporting stuff from AfterEffects using CinePak and it's obviously causing issues, then there are people porting in stuff from YouTube, their own media, like DVDs they created (not commercially purchased)), managing a large tape stock of DVCPro L, DVCPro M, miniDV, VHS, and U-Matic. Furthermore, we just got a ton of tapes in from the Ad Council, except all but two are in BetaCam, and we have no Beta hardware (the other two were a VHS of PSAs in Spanish, and we practically don't have a Latino community here; the other was 45 seconds worth of Men's Health PSAs on U-Matic). We also have to manage footage that our video server likes, doesn't like, and is acceptable for use as an animated bug in the corner. Soon we're going to have someone trying to import Flash animations (moving little characters for their show), someone doing stop-motion claymation, and a show that's going to be 90% chroma-key'd (we're just changing the background). We also have to deal with where tapes go, who's done with what, and etc. It's a bit of a pain.

Dude, these have been in the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport for two years. I remember being so shocked (and surprised, and bored) that I snapped a bunch of pictures with it on my old Cam Phone and stitched together into a little GIF-tour (I was REALLY bored waiting for my flight).

Oh my God, I hate AIR. I got introduced to it via Pownce, and it's such a pain. It's unstable, slow, and completely un-Mac-like. Cmd+W doesn't close the window, and if you do close the window, you're unable to retrieve it and the program just sits in the Dock until you force-quit it (that's right, without the window, a normal quit isn't possible). It doesn't chew up a huge amount of system resources, but everything else about it sucks.

Wake me when something better comes along (oh, wait, sorry, it has: Java. Say what you want about Java, but at least it's better than AIR!)

It's a paper cutter. Duh.

GH3 is confirmed for PS2, isn't it?

Well, hold on there! Doesn't Canon make a high-def recorder that dumps to SD? What's so wrong with SD? Dump speeds are faster than MiniDV, which means you can more easily do more with a single SD card.

It dumps video to H.264, not MPEG-2. Apple's trailer for The Golden Compass is 59 seconds long, uses H.264, and consumes 39 MB. That's .66 MB per second of video. That's 25 minutes per Gigabyte. Four GB SD cards aren't too expensive, and would store nearly an hour and a half of footage. Now, granted, you're not about to be running around with as many 4GB SD cards as you own MiniDV cassettes, but considering how fast you can dump footage, you can probably get by with a single SD card. And that's assuming that the A-HD dumps to the same bitrate as that particular Apple trailer.

I choose, the T-Mobile Wing. I'd be cool with the Cingular 3125 too (something about a WinMo flip-phone seems cool to me), but I'm guessing I only get to pick one.