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Glimpse of the ARK
A03 request: HABIT drops by out of curiosity and ends up helping Hoody with some TTA stuff
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He needed to respond to Jay’s latest updates. There was so much unknown and Hoody knew he needed to push the man to get the answers they all needed. He’d managed to push him this far, dropping hints when he could until Jay was where he wanted the man.
“Pushed… too far perhaps.” Hoody leaned back against the wall of the abandoned shed he’d been crashing in lately. While he never approached Jay directly, it was clear from his posts that he was growing more and more paranoid. “He’s turning dangerous.”
So, what was he going to do? With his partner in crime gone and Jay becoming less reliable, Hoody pondered whether or not it was time to dispose of the man before he turned violent like Alex. Part of him wanted to just out of the hope he could get Tim to return to him—or rather, the masked state Tim would go into.
“Alex is still the bigger threat… Jay could still be useful.”
He needed them to see the ARK. Hoody vaguely remembered the ARK, each time it felt like a piece of him had been torn away, but his memory wouldn’t allow himself to fully picture… whatever the place was. But it had to be important. Something about it called to him and he knew it had to hold the answers. Maybe not all of them, but at least something.
The man stood and stepped outside into the forest. It looked so innocent in the daylight. Day or night though, the faceless entity could show up. But he needed to stretch his legs and think, neither of which he could do in that cramped shed. Despite the cloth mask practically blinding him to the details of the world, the sunlight made him squint as he stepped out into the trees. Birds called in the branches around him, granting Hoody knowledge that he could relax; if birds were chirping then that entity wasn’t currently lingering about.
Unbeknownst to him, an entirely different being was.
The trials were underway and while HABIT didn’t normally visit each failure himself—normally he’d send the Rake or another pet—he’d heard of another group of humans suffering at the hands of the Operator. The entity simply couldn’t pass up seeing just what exactly was going on, especially when it meant he could have some fun with it.
His focus had settled on a man in a yellow-tan hoodie. After finding out he was the one sending cryptic videos as ‘Totheark’ he knew they’d be real fun. HABIT stalked them for days, watching from just far enough away that Hoody never picked up on his presence. A toothy grin crossed his face as he continued to creep closer to his unsuspecting target walking up ahead.
His heart picked up as he was close enough to reach out and touch the man. A gleeful expression that somehow managed to seem menacing spread over his vessel’s face as he closed the rest of the distance. HABIT’s arm went around the startled figure, pulling the taller man against his side easily despite the struggles. “Hey there! Why so glum huh? Maybe I can put a smile on that face.”
Hoody pushed away with a strangled hoarse shout, nearly dropping his camera as he stumbled forward. Turning, he stared in bewilderment at the unexpected visitor. He wanted to bark questions about just who the guy thought he was but months, years really, of barely using his voice had taken its toll.
“I believe the words you’re looking for are ‘thank you’. You know, because I’ve been hanging around. The Operator and your trigger-happy friend have been staying far away ‘cause of me.” HABIT beamed. His power radiated even if he didn’t appear as anything more than a human while inhabiting a body. It was enough to rival the stick-in-the-mud and any pets they had… one day, perhaps it would be enough to put them in their place beneath him. “...What, nothing?”
He rolled his eyes in impatience and strode forward, yanking the hooded man back as he tried to flee. Finally, it seemed to get Hoody to force a few raspy words out. “L…let…go!”
“I can’t just yet Frowny, we’ve got a game to play with your little friends. You want to know who you can trust? Wanna get them to see what’s out there? I think we should give them a little test.”
“How did he know..?” His gaze was wide and his mind was still trying to process what was going on as this stranger continued rambling about trials to put his old buddies through. “...His grip, the way he just seemed to appear… Either he’s crazier than Alex or this guy isn’t human.”
Both would likely be considered true.
“Let’s see that camera—huh, you people love carrying these things everywhere, shovin’ them in everyone’s face… I hope you’re getting my good side at least.”
A breeze rustled the branches above, the only sound now. Hoody eyed this stranger with apprehension. His gut told him this person was dangerous, that he needed to stay as far away as possible. But it was also telling him that refusing whatever was being offered would be a lot worse for his well being.
“Test..?”
“Trials to lead them exactly where you want them.” HABIT gripped his shoulder and turned him around, the world blurring for a moment and darkening as he shifted them into the Candleverse.
He gasped as he looked around, spotting a bridge a distance away while trees surrounded the small open space where they now stood. Hoody was speechless over the sudden change. The location wasn’t familiar, definitely not a part of the ARK he’d ever been in.
“Still recording?” HABIT gave him a push forward to encourage the man to take a look around. “That’s it, get a good shot.”
While the camera was in fact functioning still, the footage would almost certainly be glitchy. Still, it would show this wasn’t Rosswood nor any other place located in their plane of existence. Whatever it would pick up on was certain to blow the minds of Jay, Tim, and the others who followed along this journey—as foolish as they were to think they could help without being pulled in too.
“Welcome to a small piece of the ARK. Think this is crazy, you should see some other places…”
He wanted to speak, to ask the jumble of questions building in his head, but the words still wouldn’t come out. At least… not in comprehensible sentences. He could hear a chuckle behind him at his stammering. “I’ll definitely have to cut some of the audio on this when I edit the footage.”
His stomach lurched as he was unexpectedly whirled around again. The world seemed to spin yet in a blink they were once more standing in Rosswood. Hoody felt dizzy and did his best to stay on his feet after the sudden shift. At least with this guy he wasn’t hacking up a lung or fighting a head full of static.
“Think that’s enough incentive for your little friends huh? Wasn’t that fun!” HABIT patted the man on the head. “Ahh, you’ll be fine. Deep breaths and all that.”
The entity walked off just as suddenly as he appeared, though he did plan to linger around. He wanted to see how this new footage turned out and to witness first hand how it was taken. HABIT didn’t care much about the consequences or exactly what reactions this brought out. It was all just entertaining for him to see these mortals run about trying to get to the bottom of an endless pit for answers.
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The cheap and cheerful everyman 'Mech. I lost count of how many of these I destroyed with the Fusiliers over our years of anti-pirate/anti-bandit/anti-insurgent operations in the 3020s-3040s. They are, fittingly enough, like the fly that won't die - for one, if you hit it, it will die instantly, but (in good hands) it is fast enough to make that extremely difficult; for two, the one you just killed will just be replaced by another very quickly; and finally, if they really annoy you, you deploy with your bondswoman Victoria and her custom King Crab.
Watching the little bugs roast and pop under the fire of twin AC/20s, twin pulse lasers, and FOUR flamers was... well, any Clan warrior would find that extremely satisfying, quiaff?
As for the design itself, it is decent. I still chuckle when I remember that it spent over 140 years in use with legs that would snap off from a good kick, hard landing, or even a pilots own jump-kick maneuver.
The basic model having only a Medium Laser and an SRM 2 means it is largely a raiding unit and harasser. The subsequent variants are in general, a story of incremental or sidestep improvements that increase in quality over the years. The Wasp C remains in ilClan service, with its hybrid technology base of Inner Sphere motive (jump jets, gyro and engine) and structural (Endo-Steel) components coupled to Clan ferro-fibrous armor, double heat sinks and weapons - a Clan ER Large Laser and a Clan Improved One-Shot SRM-2.
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Kohei Matsudaira - Salvage Smallcase
Finally we reach the end of Kirigiriso's participation in these Showcases! It's time to tackle our hero for this story...and his unique situation!! It's Kohei Matsudaira!!
Summary
For the basics of Kohei, no matter the route, his entanglement to the plot starts the same way. Kohei is driving one night from college and takes a short cut he never took before. During his drive, he winds up meeting Kyoko Kirigiri, who ends in a ride with him towards her destination. Ultimately, though, his car is totalled and he's forced to accompany her on foot to the sight of her latest case: a mansion in the woods.
Kohei is a witness to Kirigiriso's three routes + alternate ending to canon:
The canon route - the Plant Girl Route - has him trying to survive a man eating mansion filled with carnivorous plant/human hybrids, cared for by the most successful experiment: Kyoka a bioenginerred plant/human hybrid clone of Kyoko Kirigiri that sought to sacrifice Kyoko and Kohei to her plants as 'nourishment'. In the canon ending, it's Kohei appealing to Kyoka in an attempt to turn her life around that has her give up her antagonism towards the lured in duo...but, killing herself and the Hybrids by setting the mansion on fire. Six months later, Kohei returns to the mansion to see the gravesite of Kyoka filled with white flowers and one huge one that he mistake for Kyoka.
Alternative route - Earth Defense Force Route - has him be a member of the Earth Defense Force with Kyoko, Kyoka and lead by their captain: Santa Shikiba. They fight against aliens: the Rhinogradentia, and its during this plot where it's revealed their ally - Kyoka - was an alien herself, but its thanks to Santa's actions does she reform and call off the invasion.
Joke route - Extra Scenario - A dream Kohei has after crashing his car. Kohei dreams of Kyoka and Kyoko being related, with him being called by the former to wake up the latter with a kiss. He's instead woken up by actual mouth to mouth by Santa.
Another End - an alt ending route to Plant Girl - Kyoka survives and becomes the adopted sister to Kyoko, while becoming good friends with her and Kohei.
Kohei's personality is that of a typical everyman sort, whose traits depend on what choices the player chooses. For example, he could be pervy towards Kyoko, cowardly enought to abandon Kyoko, easily timid or misled by Kyoka. From what canon route show of him the most, he is at least empathetic enough to try to connect with even a serial killer like Kyoka given his knowledge of her origins and is more than willing to give her at least a shot at turning over a new leaf.
Personal Thoughts/Rundown
Now, Kohei is difficult to properly analyze or discuss. At his core - he is a CYOA protagonist without much in the way of his personality or desires outside of being the typical average joe to Kyoko being a not-so average extraordinary detective. He's the Kirigiriso equivalent to Makoto and Yui, but lacks their core traits of being overly hopeful and justice seeking. He's basically even more of an audience surrogate than those two. As such, he can't really be gleamed for deeper meaning without it being a stretch? I mean, at best, I can consider Kohei in the canon route as being like a message that running away from the truth or not delving in to the heart of the matter as being detrimental? But, again, it feels like a stretch.
That's not to say Kohei is bad by any means. For an audience surrogate, he offers a serviceable look to Kirigiriso as the straightman/butt monkey to a lot of its oddities, which is appropriate given this is the game that has Kyoko deal with evil plant clones and aliens. He does his job well!
He's also interesting in that he's actually a guest star from another series, Otogirisu. I don't know the exact specifics of Otogirisu, aside from Kirigiriso being sort of like a sequel to it. So pretty neat origins on his part.
But, yeah, not much else to go off of beyond that. As it stands, this ends the Kirigiriso side of the misc. spin-offs - and in turn, for the next time I get back to them, I'll discuss two characters hailing from the short story - Makoto Naegi's Worst Day Ever!
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MEGAMAN GX TALES OF SPOOK 2022 DARK EDTON
it is back this hallowaeen and with 3 new blood scarying tales of darkness and horror.
BALDYS BASICS BALDY WINS LOVE
baldy was in the school whipping people for doing maths the wrong way “do maths right or i will beat you up stupid studant,” he was angry face and did not caring thay there was crying in the room “stop it the crying only makes me beat you harders” baldy said and broke one of there arms “maths is important is helps us fly the rockats”
he went out and was real mad and angry mad “why can these studants not learn i only care for there future so they can get jobs and be good society humans and not ending up on dole or homlass” he said
then a woman had come she was cute and the pricnpel had come in pointiong “this is miss lizzy she is the new english teacher, shoe her around” and he left and baldy had a crush “i am lizzy the new english teacher and you are cute” she giggaled and bvaldy was in love
maybe it was not so mad day as he thinked and the future was a happy one.
the end.
EVERYMANS HYBRID SLENDERRAKE
evan was having a party with jeff and vinny and doctor cornhall who had all comed back to life after they had killed habit and stopped the evil and with the evil gone they wented back to making there fitness youtube show “thinking after party we could go to live garden and get some brad sticks eh” said evan and everyone agree “founds like fun lets do it i could usd some bred sticks” said vinny but in a dark temple slenderman was there he was alive and he was angry people romanticed him or turn him into joke “i will kill them and i will reminder people to not mess with me” and he eated the remains of the rake AND MERGED WITH IT GROWING LONG CLAW ARMS AND SCARY BODY WITH SUIT “I am SLENDERAKE!!!!!”
AT THE OLive garden vinny was eating some pizza with jeff and cornhall “this is great i love peperoni pizza its the shit” vinny said but then the windows smashed as slenderrake star ted killing people “YOUR GOING TO GET RAKED!” he shouted but doctor cornhall shot gunned him in face “the horror may have scared us before but now we are ready we are fighters” he shotgunned some more and even gotted his sword out witch was folded carbon katana “i am ready too i am not going to let you monsters run our lives like you did years ago” and they fighted with slenderrake but he was stong and tough “YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR SINS” Slenderrake said bnut even saw the ghost of damsel who was kill by rake years ago “you must finish this so you can live again normal” she smile and kiss even and he feeled her power
“NO THIS TIME ITS PERSONAL” said even as he and jeff combed attacks and cut slenderrake in half as he bloewed up in light energy was was sended back to the darkness “its over anyway lets get those bread sticks guys” and they all laughed and had a good night.
the end.
FAITH CHATPER 4: THE UNHOLY VATICAN
it had been one year since father john and father galrcia had killed gary and his evil satan cult but now there was not certan of a good future becuse bad air was still lurked “we need to go back to rome and report to hq” and they gotted a plane but on the plane the air hostess was being a bit weird “I WILL RIP YOUR FACE OFF FOR THE DEVIL” she groled and turned into demon and started killing the plane and people where scraming and the pilots where dead “oh no the pilots are dead john nobody is flying the fucking plane” so john taked his cross out and sent the demon air strwwardass back to helll and they rushed to the cockpit to take control “WE ARE GONNA CRASH AH!” said john but they managed to get control back and land the plane and get out
“they looked scary good thing you landed” said a police and after giving a statement they went to vatican city “it seems the cult is alive and trying to stop us reporting to the cathloic church” said gracia.
walking into the vatican they saw the pope “pope we need to report the cult of gary had tryed to summon a demon to end the world and we trhink the cult is still alive and we need more back up to stop it” john said but the popes eyes glowed “gary already mind controled us and made us love the devil now the church serves satan you have no friends you are alone prist” and they taked there crosses out but the demon pope was to stong so they had to run and escaped into the sewers and evil prists where after them “you will join us and help us bring the end of days” said the prists but garlica shot gunned at them and they got into city.
it was dark and they had a cigerette “it looks like the entire catholic church has been compromised we must fight alone now and stop the evil lets do it” garlcia said and they got ready for a new crusade.
the end.
THANK U FOR READING THIS YEARS TALES OF SPOOK HOPE YOU GOT SCARED.
#megamangx#fanfiction#faith game#baldi's basics in education and learning#slenderman#Everyman Hybrid#john ward
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ok ok, posting this cause I learned that both ema and Kay make Monty python references and ima make a catalog of what the franmayas nerdy stiff is(shiz wrong ship I know. just roll with it.)
ema:
ema knows and loves tabletop role-playing games and you can't stop me from thinking otherwise.
she's a amazing dm and an amazing player, just a girl boss all around.
she's also read all the white wolf books no cap- and has played gurps once for Kay and the others. never again.
she played through a patched game of vampires the masquerade fully twice and is watching (and "helping") Kay through a game of it. they can't get past the first mission tho cause Kay is just awful at old timy games.
ema has watched Babylon 5, fyerfly, the og starwars trilogy, the og dr.who series, the dr.who series of our time, the first few seasons of startreck(some with Kay some without), and literally any other sci-fi media you can think of.
she likes to de-code and figure out the sciences of these fictional worlds. also her top two are fyrefly and Babylon 5(Kay's are fyrefly and startreck). and she would debate Babylon 5 is better then startreck but that debate with her girlfriend would have no winners.
also she's secretly really into Harry Potter and only Kay and a few others know. Kay is a open super Harry Potter fan(but pirated all the books)
Kay's turn now!:
Kay also loves tabletop role-playing games. but she's more just a fun player then a dm. she has dm-ed once before(the gurps that was talked about... or a different one shot idk) but that's not really her thing
dnd is her favorite and she can and dose fight about it with ema(ema likes white wolf call of cuthulu best).
she has watched all of star trek, fyrefly, bbc's sherlock, some dr.who with ema, and a few episodes of Babylon 5 cause of ema(she dosent really like it).
she's super into the Narnia tales and og wisard of Oz books and you can't change my mind.(also into Alice in wonderland and possibly mayhaps some cosmic horror)
she has played so many horror games. like the lot of them. some classic, some lost to time, some jumpscare simulators. she will play any and all horror games. just don't expect her to be super good with some of the classic shooter ones-
ema watches her play horror games and I swear if they ever invited anyone elts, they would die.
I also think Kay has been apart of some args. like everyman hybrid, but I think she has just been on the side for most of them. mabey figured out a thing or two herself but mostly just enjoyed the ride.
she got ema to join her with one once. ema almost died cause when she wasn't working she would just be unraveling the arg. and that's why ema isn't allowed to do args anymore. (p.s. she almost died just cause she couldn't figure out one of the puzzles and when she came back to it later to see what happened in the arg Kay had to deal with her ranting for 3 hours straight. Kay is the real mvp here.)
Kay knows all the game shops in the city and will stop by monthly to hang out, play a game of magic or two, and convince the owners to show her old stock that won't sell to "take off their hands"
also Kay plays magic the gathering and is a God at it. you cannot change my mind. she plays good, she plays rough, but she also plays dirty.
yes! she has old season cards in her deck!(just form last season, and that arnt that good) and she uses them to win all her battles!!!! she also uses her own shuffling method to make sure she alwase gets a good hand, and another method to make sure her opponent dosent have too good of a start.
she's a nerd about shuffling, you cant change my mind. she hangs with trucy and they will just shuffle cards. it's alwase fun.
and thats my hc for the nerd gfs so far!!! hope you liked them!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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Revisiting The 1994 Miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand
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This article contains spoilers for the 1994 miniseries The Stand and likely the 2020 series by extension.
The Stand is considered by many, to this day, to be one of Stephen King’s three or four finest novels. It is certainly among his most beloved by longtime readers, because of its sheer size (more than 800 pages when originally published in 1978, more than 1,000 in the unexpurgated version released in 1990) and the scope and breadth of its storytelling. A hybrid of horror, apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy (King has said he explicitly wanted to create a sort of modern day The Lord of the Rings), it’s an eerie, surreal tale of the fall of civilization and the battle for the souls of those left alive in the aftermath.
A motion picture adaptation was first announced on the back cover of the paperback version of the book (with George A. Romero directing), but to many, a miniseries seemed like the only way to adapt The Stand due to its sheer size. King was against the idea for a long time, famously saying, “You can’t have the end of the world brought to you by Charmin toilet tissue.” But King’s thinking eventually changed, and in 1992 ABC — which had scored a tremendous hit with a two-part, four-hour adaptation of King’s It two years earlier — gave The Stand the green light.
King, an executive producer on the project, wanted Mick Garris to direct it after the two had hit it off on the set of Sleepwalkers, a movie based on an original King screenplay. Unlike It and a second ABC/King miniseries, 1993’s The Tommyknockers — both of which had been four hours — The Stand was developed as a four-night, eight-hour event, containing a little over six hours of content after commercials. Budgeted at $26 million, featuring more than 125 speaking parts, and shot over six months in Utah, Las Vegas and other locations, The Stand premiered on ABC from May 8 – 11, 1994.
The Stand begins with the spread of a military-created bioweapon that becomes known as the superflu or Captain Trips after it escapes from a high-security lab. The flu’s 99% mortality rate ensures that human civilization is all but wiped out, although the remaining 1% is completely immune for reasons unexplained.
As the survivors in the U.S. struggle to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with tens of millions of rotting corpses, they are plagued by mysterious dreams that draw them to one of two places. Some head for Boulder, Colorado, where it seems as if decent, “good” people are gathering around an elderly Black woman named Mother Abigail who claims to speak for God, while others of a less kind bent congregate in Las Vegas under the rule of Randall Flagg, a “dark man” with supernatural powers who is a powerful demon in human form.
As the two groups assemble, it becomes clear that a confrontation is shaping up, with four of the Boulder Free Zone’s leaders — and four of our main characters — eventually heading to Las Vegas where they will make their “stand” against Flagg.
Even with six hours to fill, King and Garris had to do quite a bit of condensing to fit The Stand into its format. Nevertheless, just about all the major plot points and characters from the book make it into the miniseries, even if some don’t quite get the development they deserve. Yet the show moves along at a decent if unhurried pace, giving one time to invest in the story and the characters enough to care about what happens and who survives (many don’t).
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The cast is a grab-bag of faces from both the big and small screen. Gary Sinise — months away from his breakout role in Forrest Gump — is absolutely perfect as Stu Redman, the Texas blue collar everyman who is among the first to make contact with the superflu and walk away unscathed. Also quite effective are Rob Lowe as the saintly deaf mute Nick Andros, who becomes one of the leaders of the Free Zone, Ray Walston as the sarcastic sociology professor Glen Bateman, and Bill Fagerbakke as the sweet, intellectually disabled Tom Cullen.
Less impressive but improving over the course of the six hours is Adam Storke as the self-centered rock musician Larry Underwood. Larry is a crucial character in The Stand: it’s his ability to evolve from a selfish narcissist to a leader willing to sacrifice himself that is key to the triumph of good over evil. Storke has his moments and Larry does blossom in the latter stages of the story, but he doesn’t pull off the character’s transformation as effectively as one might have hoped.
More compelling are Laura San Giacomo as Nadine Cross (a character who, in the show, is a hybrid of the book’s Nadine and Larry’s doomed traveling companion Rita Blakemoor) and Corin Nemec as Harold Lauder. The former has promised herself to Flagg, while the latter is an incel on steroids; together they plot a terrorist attack to kill the Free Zone’s leaders before skipping town for Vegas. They too are doomed, but their collision course with each other and their fate is decidedly repulsive.
Of the major “good” characters, it’s sad to say that Molly Ringwald just doesn’t pull her weight as Frannie Goldsmith, the pregnant young woman who is the object of Harold’s desire but whom ultimately falls in love with Stu. Ringwald comes across as naïve and whiny, and her acting here is a pale shadow of her glory years in movies like Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink. More effective, excellent in fact, is Miguel Ferrer as Lloyd Henreid, the small-time crook and killer who becomes the take-charge right hand man to Flagg in Las Vegas, and an over-the-top Matt Frewer as the Trashcan Man, a pyromaniac who Flagg entrusts with finding weapons left out in the Nevada desert by the government.
Which brings us to Flagg and his opposite, Mother Abigail. Flagg, a recurring embodiment of evil and treachery in many King novels and stories, was reportedly the hardest role to cast. Although King and Garris initially wanted a Hollywood star, they went with the lesser known Jamey Sheridan, who brings a kind of manic glee to the role even if his heavy metal wig is questionable. Ruby Dee was practically born to play Mother Abigail (she even told Fangoria magazine that “her whole life had been research” for the part), and while the character as originally written suffers from King’s tendency to create “magical Negros” for his stories, Dee still brings poignancy and dignity to the role.
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If we’ve spent a lot of time on the casting, that’s because The Stand really does live or die — and in this case it’s the former — on the strength of the characters and their relationships. Even if some of the acting is more on a typical TV level (or even below), Garris and King and their cast succeed in making you care about what happens to these people as they first survive the plague and then summon the fortitude to not just restart civilization but face an ultimate evil before they can barely catch a breath.
But Garris brings plenty of other effective touches to the show, starting with the panoramic vistas that he shoots to emphasize just how empty the world has become. The show does have an epic sweep to a lot of it, even with the restrictions of TV back in 1994, and W.G. Snuffy Walden’s (who is best known for scoring The West Wing) spare, evocative score goes a long way toward setting the melancholic yet ominous tone that Garris evokes through most of The Stand’s six hours.
There are also some truly memorable setpieces, starting with the opening tracking shot of corpses strewn all over the underground military lab to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper.” Stu’s harrowing escape from the lab in which he is kept is pretty terrifying stuff for 1990s television, and while we wish Larry’s walk through a Lincoln Tunnel stuffed with dead cars and bodies lasted a bit longer, it still packs somewhat of a punch. Although Mother Abigail’s home is clearly a set on a soundstage, the moment in which she looks back at it as she leaves for Boulder, knowing she’ll never see it again, is quietly moving, as is the moment when Larry, Glen and Ralph Brentner (Peter Van Norden) have to leave an injured Stu behind on their long walk to Vegas.
The climax, the “stand” of the title, is problematic, but that’s possibly because it’s always been a hotly debated moment in the novel as well. Stu, Larry, Glen and Ralph are instructed by a dying Mother Abigail to walk to Vegas and confront Flagg. As we mentioned, only Larry, Glen and Ralph make it; Glen is shot to death by Lloyd Henreid in his cell, while Larry and Ralph are to be publicly executed by dismemberment, in front of the entire population of Vegas, on Flagg’s orders.
Just as the execution is getting underway, a radiation-sick Trashcan Man returns from the desert with a nuclear weapon in tow. With the men of the Free Zone having shown their worth to God by facing Flagg with courage and offering to give their lives to defeat him, the Almighty takes over from there. He turns a little ball of electricity that Flagg used to fry a traitor in the crowd into a manifestation of “the hand of God,” detonating the bomb and wiping out Flagg, his minions, and our selfless heroes.
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While many have criticized this scene in both the book and miniseries as a “deus ex machina” climax, it actually makes sense: the Free Zone heroes can only do much themselves against an immortal, powerful being like Flagg. They can weaken him, but they can’t quite destroy him. Once they’ve proven themselves, however, by standing up to Flagg and his unknowable evil with faith and courage, God finishes the job. The problem is that in the book, Larry and Ralph interpret the thing in the sky as the “hand of God.” In the miniseries, Garris made it look like an actual hand.
That adds a layer of cheesiness to what is otherwise a strong climax, as does having Mother Abigail’s disembodied, cooing head float above the crib of Frannie’s baby in the hospital during the closing moments, looking like a cutout picture of Ruby Dee’s face slapped on the glass window of the nursery. It’s effective and emotional to have the show close on a shot of the baby, sleeping peacefully and virus-free and metaphorically carrying the future on her tiny back, but the Abigail phantom almost ruins it.
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For all its faults — its dated view of the American populace (even with 99% percent of the world wiped out, there are far too few people of color among the survivors), its creaky fashions, its occasionally cut-rate visual effects and its uneven acting — The Stand still holds up pretty decently. Sinise and the stronger actors do much of the heavy lifting, the story and stakes are clearly laid out, and the viewer becomes involved in the characters and their struggle.
Now more than 25 years later, The Stand is being adapted again by Josh Boone (The New Mutants) and Benjamin Cavell (King’s son Owen is also a producer and writer on the project). The 10-part miniseries will debut Thursday (December 17) on CBS All Access, and in addition to a different structure for the story, the series will feature a brand new ending written by Stephen King himself. In the meantime, the original 1994 version still has heart, plenty of it, and for King and Mick Garris, it was evidently a labor of love. It may be far from perfect, but one could say it stands on its own two feet.
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collection of oneshots/twoshots that are usually fucked up in one way or another. I'm sorry.
Words: 3, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Borderlands (Video Games), Slender Man Mythos, Eddsworld - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, Other
Characters: Angel (Borderlands), Handsome Jack (Borderlands), HABIT, Noah Maxwell, Timothy "Tim" W., Jay (Slenderblogs), Brian (Marble Hornets), Edd (Eddsworld), Tord (Eddsworld), Future Tord | Red Leader (Eddsworld), Ell (Eddsworld), Tori (Eddsworld), Tamara (Eddsworld), Matilda (Eddsworld), Patrick (MLAndersen0), Firebrand (Tribe Twelve), Kevin Haas | The Observer, Timothy Lawrence, Rhys (Borderlands), Vaughn (Borderlands), Sasha (Borderlands), Caught (caughtnotsleeping), Zer0 (Borderlands), Hugo Vasquez
Relationships: Handsome Jack/Rhys (Borderlands), Rhys/Vaughn (Borderlands), Handsome Jack/Timothy Lawrence, Rhys/Zer0 (Borderlands), Rhys/Hugo Vasquez, August/Rhys (Borderlands), Rhys/Rhys (Borderlands), Rhys/Sasha (Borderlands), Timothy Lawrence/Rhys, HABIT/Noah Maxwell, Kevin Haas | The Observer/Noah Maxwell, Firebrand/Noah Maxwell, Firebrand (Tribe Twelve)/HABIT, HABIT/Jeff (Everyman HYBRID), HABIT/Patrick (MLAndersen0), HABIT/Jay (Marble Hornets), HABIT/Vinny, Edd/Tord (Eddsworld), Edd/Tom (Eddsworld), Edd/Matt (Eddsworld), Matt/Tom (Eddsworld), Matt/Tord (Eddsworld), Angel/Original Female Character, Jay/Timothy "Tim" W., Brian/Timothy "Tim" W., Edd/Future Tord | Red Leader (Eddsworld), Ell/Tori (Eddsworld)
Additional Tags: Self-Harm, Self-cest, Siren Rhys, Badass Rhys, Non-Consensual Bondage, Bondage, Non-Sexual Bondage, Torture, Blood and Torture, Blood and Gore, Blood and Violence, Blood Kink, Blood and Injury, Bloodplay, Blood As Lube, Rimming, Butt Plugs, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Verse, Two Shot, One Shot, Furry, Triggers, Gore, Robot/Human Relationships, Robot Kink, Robot Sex, Robots, Self-Insert, Alternate Universe, Fucked Up, Oh My God, I'm Sorry, I'm Going to Hell, Rape, Rape/Non-con Elements, Threats of Rape/Non-Con, Non-Graphic Violence, Non-Canon Relationship, Non-Consensual
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one of the most terrifying visuals ever to me is still in everyman hybrid when the rake like runs on alll fours behind them like in the back of the shot and its just like something that happens and its so unnatural and white and i still have no idea how they did it on their budget
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SATIRE:
BY—ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE—JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG
< —————— ——————- >
Nancy Pelosi will be dead because she’s already 79 and will be like around 84 or something, when Donald Trump leaves the office of President in about 2024.
Nancy’s imminent death—as a reportedly diseased Older Woman—will be for the stated reason of her stunning alcohol bill (which you paid.)
It reads like a dream order for some wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show that the Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time. [2010]
—https://www.ihatethemedia.com
It’s said elsewhere that “Nancy Pelosi is either alcoholic or senile.” If she’s indeed playing in adult beverages, it’s likely—at her advanced age—that she has kidney, liver, bladder, or brain problems.
I picture a magnificent DC funeral with grand procession down Pennsylvania Avenue. Gucci boots in the stirrups are reversed—a prancing magnificent stallion. Or one that identifies as gay?
Nothing is spared in this opulent funeral for a woman whose net-worth is said to be $121,000,000 (million).
Ocasio-Cortez—gentle and child-like—salutes (tight three-shot on Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar. Zoom back to show mob of 75 people overwhelming that small section of street. Try to cover up that Tlaib is laughing….)
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Mitt Romney reads a glowing funeral oration written by Hillary Clinton, and passed to some English chap, who slips it to Mitt.
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Trump tweets somberly, funereally.
Actually it seems Donald Trump is Nancy’ Lugosi’s biggest problem. She and other out-of-control Democrats been fruitlessly trying to destroy him for at least three years. “At all costs.” No matter what. I think he noticed.
For Pelosi, who has clearly lost control of her drove of sheep in the House, this once powerful woman has succumbed to her basest instincts: destroy the opposition at all costs. This time, the cost may be, as it was for Ahab, her ultimate humiliation and that of her party.
—americanthinker.com
It does appear that Nancy has “lost control” of her Democrat Party, which now seems to be lead by media-darlings, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, and other America-haters. This may play well to “the insane, Democrat Base.”
But—it seems to me—a majority doesn’t like it one bit.
And—oh damn. “Majorities,” am I right, I no, right? Majorities tend to be majorities and to do majority stuff. Such as—oh—all, like, say: winning the next Presidential election?
The mad pursuit of Donald Trump could end up throwing him the 2020 election. It could be the end of the Democrat Party’s party. For a hundred years Democrats have played fast and loose with American traditions, laws, and ways.
Leftist Democrats have tried to destroy America and its life-blood of democracy—in order to replace it with their own, dark, twisted “socialist” mania.
Democrats want a “socialized,” communist world where the worst are defined as the best. Where the poorest are mostly Everyone—all of us dragged down to the lowest Level.
Except for themselves. The Democrats. As they Rule the World, anonymously, from sumptuous dachas by the sea. As they accumulate total wealth and power.
Joe “Baldy” Biden and his props
Joe Biden looks like Roy Scheider because, in addition to Biden’s hair plugs, phony teeth, Ray-Bans, “everyman” ice-cream cone, blue collar cash-in-hand, and half-jogs to microphones—he’s being re-worked by aliens from space, known as the Star People.
Millions of years ago the Star People built pyramids and left us canabis, horses, and Mastiffs, to help make a more perfect Earth.
But theStar People’s latest “gift,” is the hybrid jackass-shark, Joe Biden.
(Insert theme: “dum dumb dum dumb dum dumb….”)
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A03 request: The EMH crew au where Slenderman doesn’t exist and them just having fun.
I may or may not have based this off both the game Slender the Arrival + blind hide and seek
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“Hello Hybrids and welcome back to another video!” Vinny grinned into the camera. “Evan, you wanna tell everyone what we’ll be doing today?”
Evan watched Jeff swing the camera to face him. “Today’s going to be a little different than normal. It’s our channel’s two year anniversary so we wanted to bring you something special. We asked you to give us some dares and we’re going to pick a few to do.”
Vinny walked back into view with a phone and began going through the dares they’d selected while out of frame Jeff’s brother Alex began setting up the first dare. It had come as a surprise when their fun little channel had grown and they’d begun bringing in other friends and family in as guests from time to time. This year’s anniversary had been letting their fans give them dares that would hopefully revolve around their fitness theme but they’d thrown some fun things in as well. This first dare was certainly one categorized under fun.
“Is Daniel ready with the suit?” Evan helped pick up the table and move it out of the way, clearing a space for the first dare.
“Yeah, he’s finishing up in the guest room upstairs.”
By now most of their viewers were aware of their fake slenderman and loved to play a game of spotting him or trying to count how many times he could be found in the video. Over the years, they’d gotten rather good at making it more difficult. However, tonight, it was going to be one of the stars.
“Okay, that should be good.”
“And the flashlights all work?” Jessa looked between them as she walked into the room.
“Yeah, tested them earlier.” Alex picked one up, flashing it on and off.
Evan left them to finish the preparations as he heard the front door open and shut. A grin crossed his face as Steph came in. “Your parents were okay with taking her for the night?”
“They love their granddaughter.” She laughed. “By tomorrow she’ll probably be begging to live with them, they spoil her enough.”
The set up completed and the Hybrids grabbed their flashlights and crowded in from where they’d been waiting for Daniel to finish setting up the pages throughout the house. Evan raised his camera up to face Jeff with a grin. “Hey cameraman, smile, you’re on camera!”
“Shh, he’ll hear us.” Vinny scolded lightly as he whispered behind the shorter man. “I think we should split into teams and… Or, yeah, we can just run off.”
He watched as the crew dispersed throughout the house, flashlights flickering on and off now and then as they tried to sneak around in search of the pages. With a sigh, he looked back down at Evan. “Guess it’s just you and me.”
“Let’s check the basement.”
“Seriously? Basement’s a trap for sure.”
Evan was already hurrying off. “That’s the point! It’s too obvious.”
Vinny shook his head but followed at a distance through the house. So far it had been the occasional whispers of the others and shuffled movements on the upper floors and various rooms on the main floor. The flashlights however, were sparse to keep ‘Slenderman’ from finding them.
“Ouch!” He grunted as he bumped into a corner. Rubbing his forehead, Vinny risked flicking his light on to navigate the hallway. “And I lost Evan.”
Shaking his head, the man turned to go look elsewhere instead, only to let out a muffled scream as he found a tall figure in the slenderman suit standing behind him. He could hear Daniel stifle a laugh as he reached out and put a hand on his head. Welp, guess he was switching teams.
Jeff turned a corner upstairs with a grin as he followed his brother’s footsteps. Before he’d been caught by Daniel, they’d managed to grab at least two of the pages and make it back to the table where three others had already been placed. At the moment, Alex was trying to make his way back with the sixth page… Too bad it wasn’t going to happen.
“Gotcha!” Jeff leapt in front of the bedroom door, blocking Alex’s escape.
His brother jumped, startled by his appearance. Alex scrambled to switch his flashlight on before dodging out of the way as Jeff tried to grab him. There was a creak followed by a thud as Alex jumped onto the bed and back onto the floor to evade his brother as Jeff ran for him again. “Too slow!”
His brother escaped out the door and Jeff slowed his pursuit as he heard Alex’s feet pounding down the stairs. Well, what was one more page? He could still win this for the proxy team… Plus, someone down there was bound to catch Alex. Jeff knew Daniel had managed to sneak up on and tag several others by now.
“Last page!” Evan crept out of the attic with the paper in hand. Getting it wasn’t the hard part; the difficult part was getting it to the table without being caught.
He tilted his camera towards his face, speaking quietly to what would eventually be the audience. “You ready to watch me win this?”
He looked up again to see Steph standing a few feet away, trapping him at the end of the hall. Evan gave her a toothy grin. “You wouldn’t, c’mon Steph, sweety?”
“Sorry, babe.”
He laughed as she caught him, wrapping her arms around his torso. “Alright, you got me… I’m super dead.”
“Whoo! Win for us.” Daniel broke character and pulled off the mask.
“Yeah, yeah, I totally let you win.” Evan smiled blinking a few times as the others began turning the lights back on.
“I’m not sure we’ll get to the other challenges tonight.” Jeff checked the time. “That took a lot longer than we thought.”
“Awe man, guess we can’t do the spicy food contest.” Vinny feigned disappointment.
“Don’t worry, we’ll get you tomorrow.” Alex nudged him.
“Hear that Hybrids? Keep an eye out for that in our next video.” Evan teased before turning the camera off.
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Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Next week is the annual National Association of Broadcasters show, or NAB, in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is primarily an industry conference, and isn't generally focused on consumer products, but we go to NAB because it often gives us a window into the future. Tools and technologies created for Hollywood or the broadcast industry have a funny way of tricking down to everyman products over the next few years, and that's usually a good thing (3D television being a notable exception, in my opinion).
So, let's take a look at a few of the product categories we'll be watching at NAB next week that have the potential to impact us not-named-Spielberg types in the coming years.
Tools for Emerging Filmmakers
The filmmaking industry has changed a lot in the past few years: technology has become better, costs have come down, and tools suitable for serious content creation are now accessible to anyone with a dream of producing films and the passion to make it happen. This transformation has ushered in an explosion of what are often referred to as 'emerging filmmakers.'
These are people who often started making films with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, but have grown their skills or businesses to the point where they need better, dedicated tools. They include independent filmmakers, small businesses working for commercial clients, or any number of other filmmaking roles. Some things they have in common are that they care about creating high quality content, have high expectations for production value, and they don't have upwards of $20,000 to buy a single cinema lens.
This category has grown large enough that we're seeing more companies which have historically catered to the high end cinema market now looking to meet emerging filmmakers' needs. Whether it's to drive revenue or create brand loyalists, we're seeing more tools designed and priced for these users. By way of example, in the past year we've seen cinema lenses such as Cookes and Fujinons with sub-$5,000 price points. We expect to see even more products aimed at emerging filmmakers at NAB.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is a technology that everyone, from manufacturers to content creators, seems to want to succeed, but which hasn't quite managed to do so. There's clearly a lot of unrealized promise, and even Hollywood executives will tell you they're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to make it work. Will this be the year VR makes the leap?
NAB will once again feature a dedicated Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavillion where the VR community can show off its latest technology. And there are clearly a lot of businesses betting big money on it, ranging from consumer-focused companies like Yi Technologies, which plans to announce VR capture devices at the show, to the likes of 360 Designs, whose Flying EYE drone system will livestream 360º 6K content from miles away for a cool $75,000.
The big question is whether any of the VR products or technologies we see at NAB this year will be enough to get significant traction in the market, or collectively move the needle toward wider adoption of VR by consumers, but the industry isn't giving up on this one yet.
8K Technology
We actually saw 8K display technology for the first time at NAB a couple years ago. And yes, it's good bleeping amazing. Last year, Canon had an 8K reference display in its booth with a magnifying glass next to it, teasing you to try to see the pixels. After all, with 8K you're collecting about the same number of pixels as a Nikon D810. In bursts of 24 or 30 frames. Every second. Think of the memory cards you're going to need... but I digress...
What does 8K mean for photographers, videographers, and emerging filmmakers? Right now, not a lot. In fact, it's unlikely we'll even see 8K TVs being widely marketed to consumers for a number of years. But on the content creation side, there's a lot to be said for 8K. With 4K quickly moving in the direction of becoming a standard for viewing content, 8K will give content creators the same advantages that 4K acquisition has for creating 1080p content. Right now we're still talking about very expensive, high end pro cinema and broadcast equipment, but what we see at NAB is often a preview to what we'll see in less expensive gear a few years down the road.
And 8K technology may come faster than we expect. We've seen 4K gain fairly wide adoption very quickly, and most of the industry seems hell-bent on a collision course between full 8K broadcast and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (having already demonstrated it at London 2012 and run test broadcasts from Rio 2016). Some of this 8K goodness (or massive data storage overhead, if you're the glass-half-empty type) may start filtering its way into our cameras in the next few years.
HDR Video
HDR video is pretty much what it sounds like: high dynamic range video that lets us see brighter brights, darker darks, and more shades in between. It's like HDR photos, but with motion, and done well it can look pretty amazing. From a consumer perspective, most talk about HDR video these days relates to TVs, but the market is still sorting itself out. As the old adage goes, 'The great thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from.' Between HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log-Gamma, there's plenty of room for the marketers to fight it out and educate consumers on the jargon.
But what we're most interested in is content creation, or HDR video capture. Admittedly, there's not a lot here for the enthusiast or prosumer at the moment. But... (and you know there's always a 'but') Panasonic has already told us to expect Hybrid Log-Gamma to be included in the mother of all firmware updates – or, as we affectionately know it, MOAFU (really rolls off your tongue, doesn't it) – that's coming for the Panasonic GH5 in summer 2017. We look forward to testing it. Once we figure out how to test it.
Drones
Love 'em or hate 'em, people are going to use drones for all kinds of things. (At least until Skynet, and we all know how that ends.) Of course, what we care about at DPReview is aerial imaging, whether it's still photography or video. The drone industry has exploded in the past few years, with tools ranging from octocopters that nonchalantly ferry around RED and Arri cameras to consumer products you can buy off the shelf and use to make your own movies.
As with other video categories, what started out as technology available only to well-funded production studios has quickly started to filter down to the emerging filmmaker or prosumer level. In fact, less than six months ago DJI introduced the Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X5S camera. That combo uses a Micro Four Thirds camera to shoot 5.2K CinemaDNG Raw video with a bit rate of 4.2Gbps. All for the price of a Canon 1D X II. This is Hollywood-level stuff. They even got cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of Pi) to make a film with it, though he had to carry it around in his hands for some shots.
Why do I bring up a product that was announced a few months ago? First, because it's an indication of where the technology is going, and competitors will need to find a way to respond. We'll be watching to see if that happens at NAB. And second, because for the love of God, DJI, can you please put this combination of tech into a regular camera? I don't care if it's a Micro Four Thirds camera the size of a Canon 1D X II, I will write you a check tomorrow.
Such is my plea.
Live Streaming
It used to be that we recorded home movies which we then forced our friends and family to watch over Thanksgiving. Later came the internet, so we could just send aunt Mabel a Vimeo link, or start a YouTube channel about cats with millions of followers.
Today that's no longer adequate. Things must be on the internet, and they must be on now! Whether it's Vloggers broadcasting live from a tradeshow floor using their iPhones, or sites like DPReview doing live webcasts from a studio, live streaming has gained a lot of momentum, and viewers are demanding higher quality live streams as time goes on.
We've already seen products to meet this need at a consumer level, whether it's a DJI Osmo that uses your phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, or the Blackmagic Web Presenter, which allows you to turn virtually any high quality camera into a streaming broadcast camera. We'll be on the watch for other products and technologies that will fuel our live streaming future. Though we can't promise to stream them to you live.
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Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Next week is the annual National Association of Broadcasters show, or NAB, in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is primarily an industry conference, and isn't generally focused on consumer products, but we go to NAB because it often gives us a window into the future. Tools and technologies created for Hollywood or the broadcast industry have a funny way of tricking down to everyman products over the next few years, and that's usually a good thing (3D television being a notable exception, in my opinion).
So, let's take a look at a few of the product categories we'll be watching at NAB next week that have the potential to impact us not-named-Spielberg types in the coming years.
Tools for Emerging Filmmakers
The filmmaking industry has changed a lot in the past few years: technology has become better, costs have come down, and tools suitable for serious content creation are now accessible to anyone with a dream of producing films and the passion to make it happen. This transformation has ushered in an explosion of what are often referred to as 'emerging filmmakers.'
These are people who often started making films with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, but have grown their skills or businesses to the point where they need better, dedicated tools. They include independent filmmakers, small businesses working for commercial clients, or any number of other filmmaking roles. Some things they have in common are that they care about creating high quality content, have high expectations for production value, and they don't have upwards of $20,000 to buy a single cinema lens.
This category has grown large enough that we're seeing more companies which have historically catered to the high end cinema market now looking to meet emerging filmmakers' needs. Whether it's to drive revenue or create brand loyalists, we're seeing more tools designed and priced for these users. By way of example, in the past year we've seen cinema lenses such as Cookes and Fujinons with sub-$5,000 price points. We expect to see even more products aimed at emerging filmmakers at NAB.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is a technology that everyone, from manufacturers to content creators, seems to want to succeed, but which hasn't quite managed to do so. There's clearly a lot of unrealized promise, and even Hollywood executives will tell you they're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to make it work. Will this be the year VR makes the leap?
NAB will once again feature a dedicated Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavillion where the VR community can show off its latest technology. And there are clearly a lot of businesses betting big money on it, ranging from consumer-focused companies like Yi Technologies, which plans to announce VR capture devices at the show, to the likes of 360 Designs, whose Flying EYE drone system will livestream 360º 6K content from miles away for a cool $75,000.
The big question is whether any of the VR products or technologies we see at NAB this year will be enough to get significant traction in the market, or collectively move the needle toward wider adoption of VR by consumers, but the industry isn't giving up on this one yet.
8K Technology
We actually saw 8K display technology for the first time at NAB a couple years ago. And yes, it's good bleeping amazing. Last year, Canon had an 8K reference display in its booth with a magnifying glass next to it, teasing you to try to see the pixels. After all, with 8K you're collecting about the same number of pixels as a Nikon D810. In bursts of 24 or 30 frames. Every second. Think of the memory cards you're going to need... but I digress...
What does 8K mean for photographers, videographers, and emerging filmmakers? Right now, not a lot. In fact, it's unlikely we'll even see 8K TVs being widely marketed to consumers for a number of years. But on the content creation side, there's a lot to be said for 8K. With 4K quickly moving in the direction of becoming a standard for viewing content, 8K will give content creators the same advantages that 4K acquisition has for creating 1080p content. Right now we're still talking about very expensive, high end pro cinema and broadcast equipment, but what we see at NAB is often a preview to what we'll see in less expensive gear a few years down the road.
And 8K technology may come faster than we expect. We've seen 4K gain fairly wide adoption very quickly, and most of the industry seems hell-bent on a collision course between full 8K broadcast and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (having already demonstrated it at London 2012 and run test broadcasts from Rio 2016). Some of this 8K goodness (or massive data storage overhead, if you're the glass-half-empty type) may start filtering its way into our cameras in the next few years.
HDR Video
HDR video is pretty much what it sounds like: high dynamic range video that lets us see brighter brights, darker darks, and more shades in between. It's like HDR photos, but with motion, and done well it can look pretty amazing. From a consumer perspective, most talk about HDR video these days relates to TVs, but the market is still sorting itself out. As the old adage goes, 'The great thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from.' Between HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log-Gamma, there's plenty of room for the marketers to fight it out and educate consumers on the jargon.
But what we're most interested in is content creation, or HDR video capture. Admittedly, there's not a lot here for the enthusiast or prosumer at the moment. But... (and you know there's always a 'but') Panasonic has already told us to expect Hybrid Log-Gamma to be included in the mother of all firmware updates – or, as we affectionately know it, MOAFU (really rolls off your tongue, doesn't it) – that's coming for the Panasonic GH5 in summer 2017. We look forward to testing it. Once we figure out how to test it.
Drones
Love 'em or hate 'em, people are going to use drones for all kinds of things. (At least until Skynet, and we all know how that ends.) Of course, what we care about at DPReview is aerial imaging, whether it's still photography or video. The drone industry has exploded in the past few years, with tools ranging from octocopters that nonchalantly ferry around RED and Arri cameras to consumer products you can buy off the shelf and use to make your own movies.
As with other video categories, what started out as technology available only to well-funded production studios has quickly started to filter down to the emerging filmmaker or prosumer level. In fact, less than six months ago DJI introduced the Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X5S camera. That combo uses a Micro Four Thirds camera to shoot 5.2K CinemaDNG Raw video with a bit rate of 4.2Gbps. All for the price of a Canon 1D X II. This is Hollywood-level stuff. They even got cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of Pi) to make a film with it, though he had to carry it around in his hands for some shots.
Why do I bring up a product that was announced a few months ago? First, because it's an indication of where the technology is going, and competitors will need to find a way to respond. We'll be watching to see if that happens at NAB. And second, because for the love of God, DJI, can you please put this combination of tech into a regular camera? I don't care if it's a Micro Four Thirds camera the size of a Canon 1D X II, I will write you a check tomorrow.
Such is my plea.
Live Streaming
It used to be that we recorded home movies which we then forced our friends and family to watch over Thanksgiving. Later came the internet, so we could just send aunt Mabel a Vimeo link, or start a YouTube channel about cats with millions of followers.
Today that's no longer adequate. Things must be on the internet, and they must be on now! Whether it's Vloggers broadcasting live from a tradeshow floor using their iPhones, or sites like DPReview doing live webcasts from a studio, live streaming has gained a lot of momentum, and viewers are demanding higher quality live streams as time goes on.
We've already seen products to meet this need at a consumer level, whether it's a DJI Osmo that uses your phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, or the Blackmagic Web Presenter, which allows you to turn virtually any high quality camera into a streaming broadcast camera. We'll be on the watch for other products and technologies that will fuel our live streaming future. Though we can't promise to stream them to you live.
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Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Next week is the annual National Association of Broadcasters show, or NAB, in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is primarily an industry conference, and isn't generally focused on consumer products, but we go to NAB because it often gives us a window into the future. Tools and technologies created for Hollywood or the broadcast industry have a funny way of tricking down to everyman products over the next few years, and that's usually a good thing (3D television being a notable exception, in my opinion).
So, let's take a look at a few of the product categories we'll be watching at NAB next week that have the potential to impact us not-named-Spielberg types in the coming years.
Tools for Emerging Filmmakers
The filmmaking industry has changed a lot in the past few years: technology has become better, costs have come down, and tools suitable for serious content creation are now accessible to anyone with a dream of producing films and the passion to make it happen. This transformation has ushered in an explosion of what are often referred to as 'emerging filmmakers.'
These are people who often started making films with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, but have grown their skills or businesses to the point where they need better, dedicated tools. They include independent filmmakers, small businesses working for commercial clients, or any number of other filmmaking roles. Some things they have in common are that they care about creating high quality content, have high expectations for production value, and they don't have upwards of $20,000 to buy a single cinema lens.
This category has grown large enough that we're seeing more companies which have historically catered to the high end cinema market now looking to meet emerging filmmakers' needs. Whether it's to drive revenue or create brand loyalists, we're seeing more tools designed and priced for these users. By way of example, in the past year we've seen cinema lenses such as Cookes and Fujinons with sub-$5,000 price points. We expect to see even more products aimed at emerging filmmakers at NAB.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is a technology that everyone, from manufacturers to content creators, seems to want to succeed, but which hasn't quite managed to do so. There's clearly a lot of unrealized promise, and even Hollywood executives will tell you they're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to make it work. Will this be the year VR makes the leap?
NAB will once again feature a dedicated Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavillion where the VR community can show off its latest technology. And there are clearly a lot of businesses betting big money on it, ranging from consumer-focused companies like Yi Technologies, which plans to announce VR capture devices at the show, to the likes of 360 Designs, whose Flying EYE drone system will livestream 360º 6K content from miles away for a cool $75,000.
The big question is whether any of the VR products or technologies we see at NAB this year will be enough to get significant traction in the market, or collectively move the needle toward wider adoption of VR by consumers, but the industry isn't giving up on this one yet.
8K Technology
We actually saw 8K display technology for the first time at NAB a couple years ago. And yes, it's good bleeping amazing. Last year, Canon had an 8K reference display in its booth with a magnifying glass next to it, teasing you to try to see the pixels. After all, with 8K you're collecting about the same number of pixels as a Nikon D810. In bursts of 24 or 30 frames. Every second. Think of the memory cards you're going to need... but I digress...
What does 8K mean for photographers, videographers, and emerging filmmakers? Right now, not a lot. In fact, it's unlikely we'll even see 8K TVs being widely marketed to consumers for a number of years. But on the content creation side, there's a lot to be said for 8K. With 4K quickly moving in the direction of becoming a standard for viewing content, 8K will give content creators the same advantages that 4K acquisition has for creating 1080p content. Right now we're still talking about very expensive, high end pro cinema and broadcast equipment, but what we see at NAB is often a preview to what we'll see in less expensive gear a few years down the road.
And 8K technology may come faster than we expect. We've seen 4K gain fairly wide adoption very quickly, and most of the industry seems hell-bent on a collision course between full 8K broadcast and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (having already demonstrated it at London 2012 and run test broadcasts from Rio 2016). Some of this 8K goodness (or massive data storage overhead, if you're the glass-half-empty type) may start filtering its way into our cameras in the next few years.
HDR Video
HDR video is pretty much what it sounds like: high dynamic range video that lets us see brighter brights, darker darks, and more shades in between. It's like HDR photos, but with motion, and done well it can look pretty amazing. From a consumer perspective, most talk about HDR video these days relates to TVs, but the market is still sorting itself out. As the old adage goes, 'The great thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from.' Between HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log-Gamma, there's plenty of room for the marketers to fight it out and educate consumers on the jargon.
But what we're most interested in is content creation, or HDR video capture. Admittedly, there's not a lot here for the enthusiast or prosumer at the moment. But... (and you know there's always a 'but') Panasonic has already told us to expect Hybrid Log-Gamma to be included in the mother of all firmware updates – or, as we affectionately know it, MOAFU (really rolls off your tongue, doesn't it) – that's coming for the Panasonic GH5 in summer 2017. We look forward to testing it. Once we figure out how to test it.
Drones
Love 'em or hate 'em, people are going to use drones for all kinds of things. (At least until Skynet, and we all know how that ends.) Of course, what we care about at DPReview is aerial imaging, whether it's still photography or video. The drone industry has exploded in the past few years, with tools ranging from octocopters that nonchalantly ferry around RED and Arri cameras to consumer products you can buy off the shelf and use to make your own movies.
As with other video categories, what started out as technology available only to well-funded production studios has quickly started to filter down to the emerging filmmaker or prosumer level. In fact, less than six months ago DJI introduced the Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X5S camera. That combo uses a Micro Four Thirds camera to shoot 5.2K CinemaDNG Raw video with a bit rate of 4.2Gbps. All for the price of a Canon 1D X II. This is Hollywood-level stuff. They even got cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of Pi) to make a film with it, though he had to carry it around in his hands for some shots.
Why do I bring up a product that was announced a few months ago? First, because it's an indication of where the technology is going, and competitors will need to find a way to respond. We'll be watching to see if that happens at NAB. And second, because for the love of God, DJI, can you please put this combination of tech into a regular camera? I don't care if it's a Micro Four Thirds camera the size of a Canon 1D X II, I will write you a check tomorrow.
Such is my plea.
Live Streaming
It used to be that we recorded home movies which we then forced our friends and family to watch over Thanksgiving. Later came the internet, so we could just send aunt Mabel a Vimeo link, or start a YouTube channel about cats with millions of followers.
Today that's no longer adequate. Things must be on the internet, and they must be on now! Whether it's Vloggers broadcasting live from a tradeshow floor using their iPhones, or sites like DPReview doing live webcasts from a studio, live streaming has gained a lot of momentum, and viewers are demanding higher quality live streams as time goes on.
We've already seen products to meet this need at a consumer level, whether it's a DJI Osmo that uses your phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, or the Blackmagic Web Presenter, which allows you to turn virtually any high quality camera into a streaming broadcast camera. We'll be on the watch for other products and technologies that will fuel our live streaming future. Though we can't promise to stream them to you live.
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Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Next week is the annual National Association of Broadcasters show, or NAB, in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is primarily an industry conference, and isn't generally focused on consumer products, but we go to NAB because it often gives us a window into the future. Tools and technologies created for Hollywood or the broadcast industry have a funny way of tricking down to everyman products over the next few years, and that's usually a good thing (3D television being a notable exception, in my opinion).
So, let's take a look at a few of the product categories we'll be watching at NAB next week that have the potential to impact us not-named-Spielberg types in the coming years.
Tools for Emerging Filmmakers
The filmmaking industry has changed a lot in the past few years: technology has become better, costs have come down, and tools suitable for serious content creation are now accessible to anyone with a dream of producing films and the passion to make it happen. This transformation has ushered in an explosion of what are often referred to as 'emerging filmmakers.'
These are people who often started making films with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, but have grown their skills or businesses to the point where they need better, dedicated tools. They include independent filmmakers, small businesses working for commercial clients, or any number of other filmmaking roles. Some things they have in common are that they care about creating high quality content, have high expectations for production value, and they don't have upwards of $20,000 to buy a single cinema lens.
This category has grown large enough that we're seeing more companies which have historically catered to the high end cinema market now looking to meet emerging filmmakers' needs. Whether it's to drive revenue or create brand loyalists, we're seeing more tools designed and priced for these users. By way of example, in the past year we've seen cinema lenses such as Cookes and Fujinons with sub-$5,000 price points. We expect to see even more products aimed at emerging filmmakers at NAB.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is a technology that everyone, from manufacturers to content creators, seems to want to succeed, but which hasn't quite managed to do so. There's clearly a lot of unrealized promise, and even Hollywood executives will tell you they're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to make it work. Will this be the year VR makes the leap?
NAB will once again feature a dedicated Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavillion where the VR community can show off its latest technology. And there are clearly a lot of businesses betting big money on it, ranging from consumer-focused companies like Yi Technologies, which plans to announce VR capture devices at the show, to the likes of 360 Designs, whose Flying EYE drone system will livestream 360º 6K content from miles away for a cool $75,000.
The big question is whether any of the VR products or technologies we see at NAB this year will be enough to get significant traction in the market, or collectively move the needle toward wider adoption of VR by consumers, but the industry isn't giving up on this one yet.
8K Technology
We actually saw 8K display technology for the first time at NAB a couple years ago. And yes, it's good bleeping amazing. Last year, Canon had an 8K reference display in its booth with a magnifying glass next to it, teasing you to try to see the pixels. After all, with 8K you're collecting about the same number of pixels as a Nikon D810. In bursts of 24 or 30 frames. Every second. Think of the memory cards you're going to need... but I digress...
What does 8K mean for photographers, videographers, and emerging filmmakers? Right now, not a lot. In fact, it's unlikely we'll even see 8K TVs being widely marketed to consumers for a number of years. But on the content creation side, there's a lot to be said for 8K. With 4K quickly moving in the direction of becoming a standard for viewing content, 8K will give content creators the same advantages that 4K acquisition has for creating 1080p content. Right now we're still talking about very expensive, high end pro cinema and broadcast equipment, but what we see at NAB is often a preview to what we'll see in less expensive gear a few years down the road.
And 8K technology may come faster than we expect. We've seen 4K gain fairly wide adoption very quickly, and most of the industry seems hell-bent on a collision course between full 8K broadcast and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (having already demonstrated it at London 2012 and run test broadcasts from Rio 2016). Some of this 8K goodness (or massive data storage overhead, if you're the glass-half-empty type) may start filtering its way into our cameras in the next few years.
HDR Video
HDR video is pretty much what it sounds like: high dynamic range video that lets us see brighter brights, darker darks, and more shades in between. It's like HDR photos, but with motion, and done well it can look pretty amazing. From a consumer perspective, most talk about HDR video these days relates to TVs, but the market is still sorting itself out. As the old adage goes, 'The great thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from.' Between HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log-Gamma, there's plenty of room for the marketers to fight it out and educate consumers on the jargon.
But what we're most interested in is content creation, or HDR video capture. Admittedly, there's not a lot here for the enthusiast or prosumer at the moment. But... (and you know there's always a 'but') Panasonic has already told us to expect Hybrid Log-Gamma to be included in the mother of all firmware updates – or, as we affectionately know it, MOAFU (really rolls off your tongue, doesn't it) – that's coming for the Panasonic GH5 in summer 2017. We look forward to testing it. Once we figure out how to test it.
Drones
Love 'em or hate 'em, people are going to use drones for all kinds of things. (At least until Skynet, and we all know how that ends.) Of course, what we care about at DPReview is aerial imaging, whether it's still photography or video. The drone industry has exploded in the past few years, with tools ranging from octocopters that nonchalantly ferry around RED and Arri cameras to consumer products you can buy off the shelf and use to make your own movies.
As with other video categories, what started out as technology available only to well-funded production studios has quickly started to filter down to the emerging filmmaker or prosumer level. In fact, less than six months ago DJI introduced the Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X5S camera. That combo uses a Micro Four Thirds camera to shoot 5.2K CinemaDNG Raw video with a bit rate of 4.2Gbps. All for the price of a Canon 1D X II. This is Hollywood-level stuff. They even got cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of Pi) to make a film with it, though he had to carry it around in his hands for some shots.
Why do I bring up a product that was announced a few months ago? First, because it's an indication of where the technology is going, and competitors will need to find a way to respond. We'll be watching to see if that happens at NAB. And second, because for the love of God, DJI, can you please put this combination of tech into a regular camera? I don't care if it's a Micro Four Thirds camera the size of a Canon 1D X II, I will write you a check tomorrow.
Such is my plea.
Live Streaming
It used to be that we recorded home movies which we then forced our friends and family to watch over Thanksgiving. Later came the internet, so we could just send aunt Mabel a Vimeo link, or start a YouTube channel about cats with millions of followers.
Today that's no longer adequate. Things must be on the internet, and they must be on now! Whether it's Vloggers broadcasting live from a tradeshow floor using their iPhones, or sites like DPReview doing live webcasts from a studio, live streaming has gained a lot of momentum, and viewers are demanding higher quality live streams as time goes on.
We've already seen products to meet this need at a consumer level, whether it's a DJI Osmo that uses your phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, or the Blackmagic Web Presenter, which allows you to turn virtually any high quality camera into a streaming broadcast camera. We'll be on the watch for other products and technologies that will fuel our live streaming future. Though we can't promise to stream them to you live.
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Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Trends to watch at NAB 2017
Next week is the annual National Association of Broadcasters show, or NAB, in Las Vegas, Nevada. NAB is primarily an industry conference, and isn't generally focused on consumer products, but we go to NAB because it often gives us a window into the future. Tools and technologies created for Hollywood or the broadcast industry have a funny way of tricking down to everyman products over the next few years, and that's usually a good thing (3D television being a notable exception, in my opinion).
So, let's take a look at a few of the product categories we'll be watching at NAB next week that have the potential to impact us not-named-Spielberg types in the coming years.
Tools for Emerging Filmmakers
The filmmaking industry has changed a lot in the past few years: technology has become better, costs have come down, and tools suitable for serious content creation are now accessible to anyone with a dream of producing films and the passion to make it happen. This transformation has ushered in an explosion of what are often referred to as 'emerging filmmakers.'
These are people who often started making films with DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, but have grown their skills or businesses to the point where they need better, dedicated tools. They include independent filmmakers, small businesses working for commercial clients, or any number of other filmmaking roles. Some things they have in common are that they care about creating high quality content, have high expectations for production value, and they don't have upwards of $20,000 to buy a single cinema lens.
This category has grown large enough that we're seeing more companies which have historically catered to the high end cinema market now looking to meet emerging filmmakers' needs. Whether it's to drive revenue or create brand loyalists, we're seeing more tools designed and priced for these users. By way of example, in the past year we've seen cinema lenses such as Cookes and Fujinons with sub-$5,000 price points. We expect to see even more products aimed at emerging filmmakers at NAB.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is a technology that everyone, from manufacturers to content creators, seems to want to succeed, but which hasn't quite managed to do so. There's clearly a lot of unrealized promise, and even Hollywood executives will tell you they're spending a lot of money trying to figure out how to make it work. Will this be the year VR makes the leap?
NAB will once again feature a dedicated Virtual and Augmented Reality Pavillion where the VR community can show off its latest technology. And there are clearly a lot of businesses betting big money on it, ranging from consumer-focused companies like Yi Technologies, which plans to announce VR capture devices at the show, to the likes of 360 Designs, whose Flying EYE drone system will livestream 360º 6K content from miles away for a cool $75,000.
The big question is whether any of the VR products or technologies we see at NAB this year will be enough to get significant traction in the market, or collectively move the needle toward wider adoption of VR by consumers, but the industry isn't giving up on this one yet.
8K Technology
We actually saw 8K display technology for the first time at NAB a couple years ago. And yes, it's good bleeping amazing. Last year, Canon had an 8K reference display in its booth with a magnifying glass next to it, teasing you to try to see the pixels. After all, with 8K you're collecting about the same number of pixels as a Nikon D810. In bursts of 24 or 30 frames. Every second. Think of the memory cards you're going to need... but I digress...
What does 8K mean for photographers, videographers, and emerging filmmakers? Right now, not a lot. In fact, it's unlikely we'll even see 8K TVs being widely marketed to consumers for a number of years. But on the content creation side, there's a lot to be said for 8K. With 4K quickly moving in the direction of becoming a standard for viewing content, 8K will give content creators the same advantages that 4K acquisition has for creating 1080p content. Right now we're still talking about very expensive, high end pro cinema and broadcast equipment, but what we see at NAB is often a preview to what we'll see in less expensive gear a few years down the road.
And 8K technology may come faster than we expect. We've seen 4K gain fairly wide adoption very quickly, and most of the industry seems hell-bent on a collision course between full 8K broadcast and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (having already demonstrated it at London 2012 and run test broadcasts from Rio 2016). Some of this 8K goodness (or massive data storage overhead, if you're the glass-half-empty type) may start filtering its way into our cameras in the next few years.
HDR Video
HDR video is pretty much what it sounds like: high dynamic range video that lets us see brighter brights, darker darks, and more shades in between. It's like HDR photos, but with motion, and done well it can look pretty amazing. From a consumer perspective, most talk about HDR video these days relates to TVs, but the market is still sorting itself out. As the old adage goes, 'The great thing about standards is that we have so many to choose from.' Between HDR10, Dolby Vision, and Hybrid Log-Gamma, there's plenty of room for the marketers to fight it out and educate consumers on the jargon.
But what we're most interested in is content creation, or HDR video capture. Admittedly, there's not a lot here for the enthusiast or prosumer at the moment. But... (and you know there's always a 'but') Panasonic has already told us to expect Hybrid Log-Gamma to be included in the mother of all firmware updates – or, as we affectionately know it, MOAFU (really rolls off your tongue, doesn't it) – that's coming for the Panasonic GH5 in summer 2017. We look forward to testing it. Once we figure out how to test it.
Drones
Love 'em or hate 'em, people are going to use drones for all kinds of things. (At least until Skynet, and we all know how that ends.) Of course, what we care about at DPReview is aerial imaging, whether it's still photography or video. The drone industry has exploded in the past few years, with tools ranging from octocopters that nonchalantly ferry around RED and Arri cameras to consumer products you can buy off the shelf and use to make your own movies.
As with other video categories, what started out as technology available only to well-funded production studios has quickly started to filter down to the emerging filmmaker or prosumer level. In fact, less than six months ago DJI introduced the Inspire 2 drone and Zenmuse X5S camera. That combo uses a Micro Four Thirds camera to shoot 5.2K CinemaDNG Raw video with a bit rate of 4.2Gbps. All for the price of a Canon 1D X II. This is Hollywood-level stuff. They even got cinematographer Claudio Miranda, ASC (Life of Pi) to make a film with it, though he had to carry it around in his hands for some shots.
Why do I bring up a product that was announced a few months ago? First, because it's an indication of where the technology is going, and competitors will need to find a way to respond. We'll be watching to see if that happens at NAB. And second, because for the love of God, DJI, can you please put this combination of tech into a regular camera? I don't care if it's a Micro Four Thirds camera the size of a Canon 1D X II, I will write you a check tomorrow.
Such is my plea.
Live Streaming
It used to be that we recorded home movies which we then forced our friends and family to watch over Thanksgiving. Later came the internet, so we could just send aunt Mabel a Vimeo link, or start a YouTube channel about cats with millions of followers.
Today that's no longer adequate. Things must be on the internet, and they must be on now! Whether it's Vloggers broadcasting live from a tradeshow floor using their iPhones, or sites like DPReview doing live webcasts from a studio, live streaming has gained a lot of momentum, and viewers are demanding higher quality live streams as time goes on.
We've already seen products to meet this need at a consumer level, whether it's a DJI Osmo that uses your phone to broadcast on Facebook Live, or the Blackmagic Web Presenter, which allows you to turn virtually any high quality camera into a streaming broadcast camera. We'll be on the watch for other products and technologies that will fuel our live streaming future. Though we can't promise to stream them to you live.
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