[quote="Joey"]What doesn't work on the DD series switchers ?[/quote] I smell something burning

What doesn't work on the DD series switchers ?

[quote="Joey"]I'm hope that there was a huge German design team influence on the new switcher. They seem to have a firm grasp on many features TD's want. If the X-ten and DD-35 are any indications of what they are capable of I'm actually excited to see this new product.[/quote] They may have a grasp of what features TDs want, yet not a good grasp on how to execute it in a way that works.

I'm hope that there was a huge German design team influence on the new switcher. They seem to have a firm grasp on many features TD's want. If the X-ten and DD-35 are any indications of what they are capable of I'm actually excited to see this new product.

I wonder if we will ever see a time where the chassis stays the same...but the cards just change in switchers from model to model. I guess you could apply this to many technologies....such as how small can a cell phone be before it is too small..Sooner or later even though technology can get smaller..it may not be practical. You will just be changing the insides...but the phone size stays the same. In switchers....unless you went to some sort of MUX to get sources in/out....you will need a mimimal amount of size for the backplane to have all the physical connectors for the amount of I/O's switchers have today. I think I would be a little nervous about having one MUX'd cable coming in..and another one going out...since if that cable went down...you are dead in the water...Now atleast if you have a connector etc go bad...you are only out one source/output. If a switcher manufacturer set a "common frame" ...as the smallest it could practically be....and made it as future proof as it could be for fitting cards...all they would have to do is offer card swaps for new switchers. You could extend this to the panel as well..like Sony does now w/ the "troughs" A good example of this would be how I believe even older switcher can have the 8000 jog/shuttle module that came out last year at NAB. True...you wouldn't sell an entire switcher,frame, etc package for each time the switcher is redone..( 300,3.4k, Kalypso)...but you may have more places upgrade more along the way since I presume it would be cheaper. This would especially be true if you had to pay for the manpower to pull out the old gear, and rewire etc.. In the long term potentially, more smaller revenues along the way, may pay more than fewer big revenue every XX yrs. I assume, as Bob alluded to, that the bulk of the cost in development may be in the physical cards...so this may not pay off. I am sure the business folks wouldn't like this idea....but...I guess that is why I am not in business position.. =) Sorry for the long email...it just got me thinking after reading the other posts in this thread. Curt

[quote="Lou Delgresiano"]Bob, would a new TGV switcher necessarily mean the end of any major advances in software for current Kalypso customers?[/quote] Lou - In a word, yes. But then again, you know that I can't say ANYTHING in just a word...:) Most manufacturers won't continue to support older products for too long once they've started work on the next product. Auto manufacturers can still make money on older models by selling parts...there's no money to be made in just software. Manpower can be better spent on developing the next product for sale. The ONLY reason that we've even seen the latest software version is to keep current product sales alive & thus help finance the next product. Currently TGV is apparently trying to leverage improvements done on Kayak into the Kalypso whenever possible to accomplish this. That being said, one of my sources tells me that this week's private showing of the new switcher to a select group of TD's was met with a resounding "thumbs down" for the panel layout. So, either TGV can slap these TD's in the face & release the panel anyway under the guise of "we know best & they don't", or they can do the smart thing & have their "experts" go back the drawing board & do it right. If they opt to do this, they will still need to bring in income to finance the new project, so you may see little fixes for Kalypso - but the amount of manpower needed for major feature upgrades wouldn't be justified with the relatively few sales that are out there to customers who don't understand that their purchase today will be replaced (probably) by next year. In either case, rumor has it that you won't see the new switcher at this year's NAB...disappointing. Manufacturers have a timeline for features that reaches literally years out into the future. IF there is to be a version 15 or better, it would have already been in development for a LONG time & TGV would have been touting it along with a potential release date (for how long did we hear about version 14's immenent release?); if for no other reason than to calm their current customers who may be worried that Kalypso is on its way out. If you were to ask anyone at TGV today about a new release, I'd bet that they'd be pretty tight-lipped about it and they probably won't say ANYTHING about potential new features...that's probably because it isn't there. Like others, I too love the Kalypso, so I'd be thrilled if TGV proved me wrong...We'll see.

[quote="Lou Delgresiano"][quote="Bob Ennis"][quote="tv9director"]I would like to be able to name my macro / emem files (other than Macro001 / Emem01) and still be able to import them. (This may already be possible but I don't know how to do it)[/quote] Macros can be renamed in the Macro menu...E-MEMs cannot. I wouldn't hold my breath about Kalypso improvements - the reason behind the thread is that GV is coming out at some point with a NEW switcher, although there are doubts that they will show it at NAB...T/GV's efforts are being used on the NEW switcher; there aren't a lot of resources to upgrade the Kalypso which will soon be replaced by the new switcher.[/quote] Bob, would a new TGV switcher necessarily mean the end of any major advances in software for current Kalypso customers?[/quote] Lou, why wouldn't a new switcher mean end of Kalypso features? The 4K went bye bye when Kalypso came out, there are even still some nasty bugs on the 4K that were never addressed. I wish that were not the case b/c Kalypso is still a great switcher, and there are still many more features that we would all love to see on it. Seems to be that the still store change/fix may be the last real software upgrade that it gets. That would be a shame, there are enough posts on this site with suggestions that are great ideas. Some of them are a few years old and still would be great to have.

[quote="Bob Ennis"][quote="tv9director"]I would like to be able to name my macro / emem files (other than Macro001 / Emem01) and still be able to import them. (This may already be possible but I don't know how to do it)[/quote] Macros can be renamed in the Macro menu...E-MEMs cannot. I wouldn't hold my breath about Kalypso improvements - the reason behind the thread is that GV is coming out at some point with a NEW switcher, although there are doubts that they will show it at NAB...T/GV's efforts are being used on the NEW switcher; there aren't a lot of resources to upgrade the Kalypso which will soon be replaced by the new switcher.[/quote] Bob, would a new TGV switcher necessarily mean the end of any major advances in software for current Kalypso customers?

[quote="Bob Ennis"][quote="tv9director"]I would like to be able to name my macro / emem files (other than Macro001 / Emem01) and still be able to import them. (This may already be possible but I don't know how to do it)[/quote] Macros can be renamed in the Macro menu...E-MEMs cannot.[/quote] I meant the actual file name that I save to the thumb drive, and such. I know the name comes back when I load the macros...but I am looking to have the file name match the name I give it in the kalypso menu.

[quote="tv9director"]I would like to be able to name my macro / emem files (other than Macro001 / Emem01) and still be able to import them. (This may already be possible but I don't know how to do it)[/quote] Macros can be renamed in the Macro menu...E-MEMs cannot. I wouldn't hold my breath about Kalypso improvements - the reason behind the thread is that GV is coming out at some point with a NEW switcher, although there are doubts that they will show it at NAB...T/GV's efforts are being used on the NEW switcher; there aren't a lot of resources to upgrade the Kalypso which will soon be replaced by the new switcher.

I would like to be able to name my macro / emem files (other than Macro001 / Emem01) and still be able to import them. (This may already be possible but I don't know how to do it)