Comments on: Pre-Macworld Thoughts http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/ The Current Events and Opinion Weblog of Chris Farley Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:50:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: laurie bartels http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-420 laurie bartels Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:40:11 +0000 http://www.viewfromafarley.com/?p=186#comment-420 Hi Riley, Madame Scher took the Flip to France over December vacation, filmed a lot of video (including sound) and then, after downloading it to her computer using the Flip software (very easy interface), imported the resulting QuickTime movie into iMovie, where she did further edits. The sound quality was fine, and you will get to see the results at Thursday's morning meeting. Why don't you hang around afterwards for a few moments and ask her to show you the camera. I have not actually played with it yet. Cheers, Mrs B Hi Riley,
Madame Scher took the Flip to France over December vacation, filmed a lot of video (including sound) and then, after downloading it to her computer using the Flip software (very easy interface), imported the resulting QuickTime movie into iMovie, where she did further edits.

The sound quality was fine, and you will get to see the results at Thursday's morning meeting. Why don't you hang around afterwards for a few moments and ask her to show you the camera. I have not actually played with it yet.

Cheers,
Mrs B

]]> By: Chris http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Chris Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:34:03 +0000 http://www.viewfromafarley.com/?p=186#comment-416 Interesting question. As a purely theoretical idea, I have a few thoughts, but I don't think we'll be seeing this anytime soon and almost certainly not at tomorrow's Macworld.<br /><br /><br />An iSight camera in HD seems like an illogical move at this point in time. Even broadcasters are having trouble with HD and with the compression that would be needed, it wouldn't even be worth it. And I'm not sure the technology even exists to fit an HD sensor into such a small form factor. If it does, I think, as you mentioned, that the cost would be prohibitive.<br /><br /><br />In the future, it seems very likely. The quality of everything is going up, so I think HD webcams are next.<br /><br /><br />CF Interesting question. As a purely theoretical idea, I have a few thoughts, but I don't think we'll be seeing this anytime soon and almost certainly not at tomorrow's Macworld.

An iSight camera in HD seems like an illogical move at this point in time. Even broadcasters are having trouble with HD and with the compression that would be needed, it wouldn't even be worth it. And I'm not sure the technology even exists to fit an HD sensor into such a small form factor. If it does, I think, as you mentioned, that the cost would be prohibitive.

In the future, it seems very likely. The quality of everything is going up, so I think HD webcams are next.

CF

]]> By: Riley W. Kaminer http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Riley W. Kaminer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:18:41 +0000 http://www.viewfromafarley.com/?p=186#comment-415 Very true, Chris. Question: what would you think of an iSight camera in HD? Do you think Apple would do it or would it just cost too much for them to manufacture? Can't wait for MacWorld! Very true, Chris. Question: what would you think of an iSight camera in HD? Do you think Apple would do it or would it just cost too much for them to manufacture?

Can't wait for MacWorld!

]]> By: Riley W. Kaminer http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Riley W. Kaminer Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:50:47 +0000 http://www.viewfromafarley.com/?p=186#comment-419 Mrs. Bartels, I did hear that the Flip Mino HD is a good buy. There is one thing though that I think would bother me: the not so great audio quality. Do you know if it has an audio in port? Riley Mrs. Bartels,
I did hear that the Flip Mino HD is a good buy. There is one thing though that I think would bother me: the not so great audio quality. Do you know if it has an audio in port?
Riley

]]> By: laurie bartels http://www.viewfromafarley.com/2009/01/05/pre-macworld-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-418 laurie bartels Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:08:09 +0000 http://www.viewfromafarley.com/?p=186#comment-418 Hi Riley and Chris, Have you looked at the Flip camera? It produces very nice HD video and is in a small form, thought perhaps not quite as small as the iSight. Cheers, Mrs B/Laurie Hi Riley and Chris,
Have you looked at the Flip camera? It produces very nice HD video and is in a small form, thought perhaps not quite as small as the iSight.
Cheers,
Mrs B/Laurie

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