Semi-related, I was just watching a YouTube video featuring an interview with one of the pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird, undeniably the coolest aircraft ever built. Anyway, when the nose was outfitted with the camera, they shot on film... a 2 mile long, 5 foot wide roll of film. And while there are several reasons the Blackbird doesn’t fly anymore, chief among them is the effort it took to load and unload the film, then develop the film. The film would have to be unrolled by hand and cut into shorter lengths, all done without any debris or scratches on the film. Still, coolest aircraft ever! I’ll take one of those over a drone any day
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:14 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > just a ramble..... But Tom suggested CBS using 8K for archival purposes. > I'm sure they are using them to 'keep up with the curve and figure out how > to use them and the associated data they produce'. > > I was having a work discussion on Friday night with one of our technology > managers. I work at an engineering company and we design and manage the > construction of mineral processing facilities, hydroelectric plants, and > other such things. Engineering usually takes 2-3 years and construction > and commissioning takes 5 years (partly overlapping the engineering). At > the end of commissioning when we 'handover' the facility to the owner, we > also hand over the engineering data (drawings, specification documents, and > manuals in the 'old' days, but now models and other electronic data). It > is growing to a crapload of data this days. > > I find this SD/HD/UHD/4k/8k topic to be very interesting and parallel. > Someone (with the deep pockets) has to use the bleeding-edge technology to > capture the data and store it the best they can. BBC obviously tried to > learn about streaming it as well at 4k -- a great exercise to learn. who > knows what video formats will 'rule' in 5 years. Do we all remember > DIVX? my DVD player does. > > other parallel topics: financial systems programmed in COBOL. Science > software programmed in FORTRAN. 1990/2000 stuff in Java. > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:43 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:19 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Adam. That's a great BBC article. >>> >> >> Going back to the original post, CBS could well be using 8K cameras for >> archival purposes. Obviously all Super Bowls from the pre-HD era are in SD >> and there is no format for better resolution. Maybe 8K will be the industry >> standard and CBS will be able to stream a recording of the game in that >> format. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
