HD For Indies

Hey all -

first off, thanks for all the kind and supportive emails and comments I've received over the last few weeks - it's been very humbling and rewarding to see all of the good will that has come my way from supportive or concerned folks - thanks very much to you all.

The reasons why I had to sideline the blog have been put behind me and I'm moving onward and upward. Multiple business endeavors that I'd spent many many months to put together all fell apart around the same time and had to be dealt with. Frustrating and time consuming.

But I'm back now, and will be diving right back in, starting tonight - SXSW starts tonight and I'm looking forward to a week of conferences, movies, parties, filmmakers, drinking, schmoozing, and not shaving.

I've missed blogging about a lot of good stuff -

-Sony XDCAM HD
-Panasonic's price drop on the SDX900 ($10,000 off, now $16,500)
-the true res of the HVX200 - 960x540 with pixel shift in both directions
-Panasonic's new P2 based 720p/1080i camera that will be in the $26-$30K price range
-Apple's new Intel based Minis
-LumiereHD's new versions for 24p support of more HDV cameras
-and who knows what all else

I may just drop a huge blob of links to stuff I've noted but not blogged recently.

But the coming week is alllllll about SXSW.

So, I'm back, I'm rolling, and getting back to what I do best.

-mike