It's amazing the level of ignorance sometimes conveyed on this forum about products people clearly don't have much experience with.

"The EX1 is by far a better camera than the HVX. The picture quality is not comparable imo. The EX1 uses a fantastic fujinon fixed lens and uses SxS expresscard media that can be plugged into any new PC laptop or macbook pro for very speedy transfers. The chip size is 1/2 opposed to 1/3 and they are very comparable in price. "

For starters on this one. I've been on shoots where the b-roll footage i was getting off an HVX ran toe to toe with a PMW-355 XDCAM HD. Do the people who write this stuff use these cameras? As for SxS... try hitting the button on an EX1 while in preview mode and see how quickly it takes for the camera to start recording... now try that same thing on an HVX. Resolution wise, the EX1 will trump the HVX but it's not nearly as substantial as people seem to claim. Color resolution wise, the workflow of having to transcode footage to gain color space can be annoying for some and you aren't gaining anything extra in the first place. The HVX200A and the EX1 are about the same in sensitivity; give me the additional color resolution any day of the week...

"HVX200 doesn't do native 1080 24p. It does 1080i 24p. This means that its 1/3 inch sensors only have a vertical resolution of 540 pixels, and the HVX200 has to upres to get 1080i. EX1, and even better, EX3, both do native 1080 24p."

1080 24p IS native on the HVX, it's recording a 1920x1080 24p signal into a 1080i stream like the DVX did with miniDV. You are confusing the process here on so many levels. The resolution problem you are speaking really has nothing to do with the cadence of storing the 1080p signal in a 1080i stream. It has to do with the resolution of the HVXs chips. The process goes from the chip into the camera and processed into a signal which than is recorded within the 1080i stream. bleh.

and lastly... this one is the best...

"Slap an SLR adapter and put the basline Cooke S4's on this thing, and it'll beat the shit out of even Panasonic's infinitely commendable 500 model."

So what you are saying is to put an intermediate SLR 35mm style adapter on the EX3? and you will achieve better image quality than a 2/3" sensor using glass (ya know those 10k lenses from Fujinon and Canon) designed specifically for the camera? You can't be serious. If you stop pixel-pushing for just a second you'd realize that the amount of pixels that show up in your NLE really doesn't matter if you've chosen to throw a gigantic piece of ground glass in front of it. In my experience, i'd rather have the 2/3" sensor in the 500 than the 1/2" sensor in the 355... this isn't even factoring in the crop factor when using the extensive line of 2/3" HD quality lenses available on any XDCAM camera.

13,000 for this camera makes no sense... they seem to have reduced the price so the camera is viable... to a point.

what i'm saying is that Xbox Live is just been around for a long time and it works really nicely. I was unaware that the PS3 had such an advanced online content manager... i was under the assumption it's still a 'work-in-progress'... plus i didn't realize you could so easily play online games... again, under the impression the 360 was leading that regard.

i've had the 360 for about 2 months now, along with a Wii. I have to say, the 360 live content area is nothing short of awesome; all of the fandom aside.

Simply put, it just works. I love quickly downloading demos, playing some other game and then having the console let me know when the download is complete mid game. There is something seemless about how it all works together. I'm sure the PS3 will someday get close to the 360 in terms of online content and usability, but as long as it's unpaid it's not a priority to them. o well. without the blu-ray player (now that that's over) what game could i play on the PS3 that i can't on the 360? I'd consider it for the blu-ray player though.

i made the plunge

Xbox 360 Pro Bundle with Free Controller (CC)
Creed and Halo 3 with the 10 dollar gift cards (CC)
NBA 2k8 for 28 bucks (Target)
Orange Box for 48 bucks (Target)

I'm lovin' it!

... there is footage off it on www.red.com, it's far from "vaporware"