HD Fast Forward - anyone use?
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I have never used a HD Fast Forward, and was wondering what the differences were from the SD. Does anyone know what the menu settings/record/playback should be? Does it record the same as SD?
I will be using one soon....Thanks very much.
I've been using one on the NHK truck since late 2008. Well, not exactly - it was in the truck in 2008 but never worked right that year. After multiple attempts to fix it, they did finally get it right, and it worked pretty much flawlessly throughout the 2009 baseball season. It's exactly the same, operationally, as the SD version. As on the SD one, make sure you're in BVW-75 mode. There's a handful of different items in the touch-screen menus but under normal circumstances you wouldn't need to mess with any of those.
I was very happy with it for 7 months last year - but then again, we did have the added benefit of the FF guys coming in the truck and fixing/replacing the thing multiple times before the season started.
and on an unrelated note, why is there a CAPTCHA when we're already a registered user? this site redesign is ridiculous.
We've got one in our dual truck and its very finicky. Dumps out on records all the time, and tends to slip quite a bit. You have to clip things off 3 or 4 times before it actually holds and lines up both channels. Fan of the SD version but something seems a miss with this HD line of FFWD's. Once again though the market has found a reliable, successful, and TD preferred Spotbox and we continue to run into the cheaper, more show imploding hardware.
Unless sponsored elements are lost, management doesn't care.
I accepted this when I cut my first show on a Kayak. I had some issues BUT all of the sponsored elements hit air. Sales didn't have to explain to a client and they were able to bill for the spots. All was well.
I've heard of nothing but trouble with these boxes.
At the Olympics I'm told they went through nearly a dozen of them and ultimately found that if you popped off the casing and held it just right, it would work.
Never thought I'd say a ClipStore would be better.
I'm just amazed how the Fast Forward had such a grip on the market and they let it go by not producing a working HD box. Was it that big of a surprise that HD was coming? Now to hear Lou's comments really makes one scratch their head in wonder. What the heck happened to this company?
Thank you for finding that, I appreciate it -It is helpful.
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I used one last night. It works exactly the same as the SD model. The drives are small lap top drives now, and like the SD model they have an enclosure made exclusively for Fast Forward. One thing I didn't like is that I couldn't find a way to change the time code from non-drop to drop frame. I have found this same time code issue on many of the SD models also.