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Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on November 30, 2011, 11:18 PM:

There's an ad for a SONY tablet and in the graphic is a 400' Super 8 reel with the film slightly unwound. I wonder what movie was on the reel and if the person shooting the ad was a collector. Normally you see empty 35mm reels, but never 8mm and not with a full reel of film on it.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on November 30, 2011, 11:48 PM:

Take a look!

Doug

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 01, 2011, 01:26 AM:

Nicely done [Smile]

Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 01, 2011, 02:09 AM:

Folks

Take another look at the picture. I don't know what the logic is behind the shot but, the film is resting on top of other films inside a waste basket! The PS controller next to the reels is also kind off odd, as if SONY is subliminally saying "out with old, in with the new"! [Embarrassed]

Did SONY ever make a Super 8 machine?

P.S. Maybe someone will invent Super 8 film reading software.

Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on December 01, 2011, 09:42 AM:

Looks like its time to throw all our films in the trash and buy a Sony tablet...with a huge nine inch screen! [Big Grin]

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 01, 2011, 11:28 AM:

When they mention watching the latest movies, having an actual reel of film adds a touch the "film/movies" thing. However the name Sony tablet sounds strange. I thought a "tablet" was something you took with a glass a water [Big Grin]

Graham.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 01, 2011, 12:23 PM:

I don't think companies like Sony and Panasonic ever made movie projectors. They specialize in consumer electronics and back in those days movie projectors were considered "photographic equipment", as in mechanical/optical systems with a little electronics on the side.

You bought TVs in the electronics department, you bought projectors in the camera department.

With advances in electronics the line has blurred and pretty much collapsed entirely. Now Sony makes cameras and Panasonic makes projectors, as in a lot of electronics with a little optics for I/O. Unfortunately Kodak hasn't jumped the barrier the other way.

I'm a little wary of all these little screens people carry around. I'm sure they do wonderful things, but the more portable something is the more droppable, loseable and stealable it becomes. (Speaking as somebody who ran over his cell phone with his car...it fell out of my pocket!)

I'm actually agitating for more corded phones at the house: when it rings you can never find the cordless ones before the answering machine kicks in!

Posted by William Mouroukas (Member # 2764) on December 01, 2011, 02:05 PM:

I'll add very 'limited life' to Steve's list on tablet negatives. My old Eumig Mark 8 is still cranking after 44 years.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 01, 2011, 03:44 PM:

These aren't what you'd call "durable goods".

The question is what comes first: failure or obsolescence.

Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on December 02, 2011, 01:11 PM:

That is why I always joke that Sony is behind the end of film...Sony makes consumer (and professional) electronics and the software you use (ie Sony BluRay), it doesn't bode well for a company like that when as you say your Eumig is still cranking along 44 years later. They want you to get the stuff from them (both the players and the media you play) They have almost set it up so that all formats will be gone except the ones Sony is controlling (or at least majorly controlling). This whole end of film stuff started when Sony got into the Film making business and probably didn't like that they had to give all this money away to Kodak or god forbid Fuji....Sony makes digital cameras, digital projectors, digital cinema servers, they own a movie studio and they control the home Bluray business.. I can't think of any more blatant abuse of anti-trust laws, but they are obviously being allowed to do it....

Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 02, 2011, 08:53 PM:

I agree with you Dino, on all points.

Long live real film!

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on December 02, 2011, 10:03 PM:

I've read SONY also owns our national anthem ("The Star Spangled Banner"). Apparently SONY's music division owns the performance and recording rights to our national anthem which means every time it's sung at venues where an admission is charged, recorded on an album or performed on television/radio/motion pictures SONY gets a piece of the action. We're slowly selling out America to overseas enterprises and it breaks my heart to see it continue. I don't have a problem with importing foreign commodities, but why the hell are we selling out our very heritage. Next thing you know some foreign company will own the american flag and you'll have to pay them a royalty to have it flying proudly outside your home.

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on December 03, 2011, 01:55 PM:

How can that be when anything published and copyrighted before 1923 is now in public domain (at least from the US)?

Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on December 05, 2011, 10:21 AM:

The anthem itself is, as you say, Bill, public domain. What SONY did was copyright specific arrangements by specific music industry people and if any of the newly copyrighted arrangements are performed SONY gets a piece. Now here's where it gets tricky.... Let's say I want to lease an arrangement of the anthem for a 16-piece orchestra - the only arrangements available by Tams-Whitmark or any of the music publishing companies that furnish sheet music for orchestral/chamber performances are arrangements copyrighted by SONY - here's how they get the "Ka-Ching".

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