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Is it significantly better than anything else you currently have?

Why are the batteries so expensive?

Full of acid.

It's how they charge.

Yes it is better:

Shoots onto card not tape (although the official Sony cards are 150 sovs for 8 gb (20 minutes)).
Better lens.
Shoots full HD 1920x1080i or 720p and a load of other formats.
Uses XDCAM codec while still MPEG 2 is better than the HDV codec I currently use.
Does slow-mo (records at 50fps for playback at 25fps)
Produces gorgeous images.
Uncompressed audio. Problem with HDV is that it uses 320k MPEG2 audio which has issues.
The timelapse feature from the old PDX-10 is back. Hoorah!
The images look more expensive and therefore the finished videos look better so I can charge more.
Shoots progressive which is a boon for stuff to be played back on a PC because deinterlacing is a pain and it always looks shit.

The batteries are so expensive because nobody is producing cheaper clone versions that I can see. + The clone versions I currently use in my Z1 have an awful habit of reporting lots of time left and then just dropping out.


I'll still keep the Z1 (pictured below) but it will become a second unit. It's 3 years old now and tape based which means its had wear and tear. I'll flog the PDX-10.



Long term I'll flog the Z1 as well and replace it with a small tape based camera like an A1E. Tape is still useful as is a small camera.

I hope you fixed your garage door before wasting your money on this toy.

Not a toy and not my money. Well not my money kind of. Business purchase innit. If I don't spend it before the end of July, Gordon Brown gets the money.

Garage door is fine. Just need to press stop *before* it hits the ground and winds around itself. Stupid bloody thing.

Ah, that money. Free toy money, I call it.

You could've at least got something useful like some fake dog poo or a hairnet.

Can you buy me that Ibiza for £3.5k with some more of that not your money plz?

I know it's not a toy.

Money all gone now. In fact went 300 quid over budget!

Well, that's odd.

How many fingers am I holding up?

feels like 3

You're a stretchy boy. Been practicing with daddy?

small hands I reckon

Your dad has very small hands? Is he, perhaps, a woman?

Now, that just doesn't make sense. You're gender confusion is spilling over into the outside world now.

Men with small hands are, sometimes, women. Jamie Lee Curtis, for example.

Was Beadle half a woman, then?

Men are sometimes women? Dude, you need to book your holidays somewhere other than Bangkok. It's warping your mind

He had but one testicle.

Did you get it when you first got your PS3 Grim...? I've played it for about 15 hours now since I got it and I still keep spotting small details that bring the whole thing to life. I managed to sneak past Zio on the leaderboards the other day - well until such time as he spots it.

If you don't think it's pretty, you're wrong by the way.

You're doing a good job of covering up, Dav S Paz, but we all know the truth.

I wish you two would get a room.

I *told* you'd I could keep your secret, 'Chris'

*winks*

He'd need a diagram first, by the sounds of it.

It's not my fault you've got non-standard plumbing.

I'm worried by your definition of standard, if 'men are sometimes women'

I meant "Paz family men", of course.

Long lunch, Chris?

Oh no, it's not that. but I've just written a feature for UpToJump (once it's been subed'd it'll be live for all to see) about pretty games.

"I like pretty games because they have tits".

Ooops. Ta.

Don't say I don't look after you.

if they removed the attractive young girls, would anyone, honestly, give a shit about wimmins tennis? The williams sisters are so far ahead of anyone else, it's hard to see why anyone would bother

Does anyone give a shit about any tennis, anyway?

I know people who like tennis, or Wimbledon to be more precise, they don't seem to bother the rest of the time. But then again you can say that about football and the World Cup.

No. I find it incredibly dull. The Williams sisters are mingers, too, which doesn't help.

Yes I know. I am on your computer reading your stuff. Miaow etc.

Let us know when it's up please thankyou.

Trousers!

Hi Trousers

Hello Mimi!

I'm still about but dipping in and out of the forum at the moment and that means losing track of why X has fallen out with Y or why Mr Chris is wrong this week.

I have many things to work on at the moment and getting involved in a forum (especially one as excellent as this fine establishment) will only provide a means of procrastination I can't afford just now.

I still heart everyone lots of course - well apart from

I didn't think it was me, but I was being nosey

Also: I don't know why Mr Chris is wrong, but I like Mr Chris.

Easy. He's Mr Chris No.

I refer the honourable gentlemen to the Super Stardust HD leaderboards.

HUMPH.

I've never liked them twin stick shooters myself. Honest Guv.

That article about graphics is live, Trousers.
http://uptojump.co.uk/2009/07/02/the-th ... mes-today/

We're moving offices next weekend - from our nice if worn n' torn office in Central Cardiff to a new purpose-built building in Canton.

And I swear, it's been designed by management cretins who have no fucking clue what sort of work we do, how we do it, or what 'common sense' is.

The entrance gate into the parking lot is only wide enough for one car. It also seems entirely possible to slither under this gate, due to the shape of the slope underneath it.

There's motorcycle parking spaces... but they're not covered. The bicycle racks, however, are. When I questioned the manager about this, he just shrugged and mumbled something about 'just try and get it as far under the cycle shelter as you can'.

The other access route is so narrow that passing someone coming the otherway will be tricky at best and dangerous at worst. You aren't allowed to use umbrellas on it. And we will all be issued hi-vis vests. Because the path is immediately adjacent to the South Wales Main Line. Put an umbrella up and it might well be clipped by a passing train.

Into the office itself, and the desks have been arranged by idiots. At the moment, myself and the three other people I need to speak to constantly are all arranged in a cube of desks, facing each other. Now our desks are a long crescent, so we're all sitting in a row 20 feet long. And other people we need to speak to regularly are miles away.

Air conditioning is provided by air vents IN THE FLOOR. Cold air falls, remember. And just wait until someone drops money/credit cards/entry passcard down there. Further, we aren't allowed to adjust the air conditioning any more. We have to call someone else so they can do it for us.

We're no longer allowed to eat ANYTHING at our desks. Unlike the majority of other office jobs, things can kick off really suddenly in my work, so eating at your desk is a good idea so you don't come back in after your 15 minutes of lunchbreak a day to a crisis in full swing. No, we now have to eat in the 'breakout' area. But what if something kicks off while we're out there? Well, say the Brent-esque managers who conceived this place, there's a phone so they can call to tell you you need to come back in. Everyone has said unless I'm allowed to bring my half-eaten lunch in with me, you can fuck off.

They're also insisting on shirts and ties for men (women, naturally can dress however they like and that's fine) despite the fact no member of the public will ever come into the office, ever. You're also no longer allowed to hang your coat/jacket/company fleece on the back of your chair. Which will likely last as long as it takes for something to be nicked from someone's coat hanging up in the stupid wardrobes they've installed.

Everything in our current office works fine. We are within talking distance of everyone we need to hear, we get all our work done, everything is fine. So naturally, pointy haired bosses have to fuck with it.

I like tennis (I watch all the majors). But yeah, women's tennis is a bit boring. And I wouldn't bother without the likes of Maria Kirilenko.

Then again, MaKiri is so mediocre, that's tantamount to not watching anyway.

I don't.