Indeed.
The music genre does not "need" the MPs,headless computers are just easier on logistics/ergonomics atm. The processing power and portability is allready in the laptops.
True, but I am sure that the audio world would love to have a machine that can process multiple streams of uncompressed audio while a technician is mixing it down on the other end.
Not to mention the amount of PCI cards needed for the I/O and bandwidth of said streams and storage of said streams
The photo,about the same.
The print requirements (300dpi) stagnated years ago and in that area there will not be noticeable advancement during the printed pages era. It might last 10 or 100 years,but still. It will not evolve a lot further. Machines from 1995 could handle the pics (A4,A3) let alone the present ones.
In direct photo manipulation the requirements are higher and will get higher for some time. Export TIFFs from Raw are 120-400Mb´s,manipulated files of 1-5 Gb are not uncommon and with bigger sensor sizes they will get higher.
But even the future (5yrs) are manageable even by the modern computers and programs,let alone if the programs would be optimized.
Not completely true. Photogs need that power mainly for exporting those large images files and shifting through large libraries. True that the iMac i7 can handle it, but once again we get into the expansion and PCI equation. I wouldn't want to use a machine from 1995 to handle a Canon 5DMkII RAW file with the current apps that can run it.
But, I do agree that a desktop class chip in an iMac is a sweet deal for most photogs. The user will just have to choose whether they want expansion or not.
Moving pictures,aka,video.
A bit tougher one.
The high definition era is here,but the 1080p will be the roof for the next 10-15 years. The infrastructure (worldwide,japan excluded) is just not there yet. Terrestial infra is just so clogged,even if we could get rid of the SD content.Wich we wont for decade or two.
And content delivery purely via net just wont happen as it is even more bogged down,even in the western civilisations.
Let alone in the emerging or dormant markets,where it will take the next half a decade or close to reach maturity.
So,the 1080p will be the max medium for a while.
Wich can be handled by the present machines just fine.
And,the BIG moving media creators will be enough financed to get their server based systems where the layout will probably be the server+dumb heads.And I dont mean the operators here...
So they will get by without the towers allso.
Not true. The server may be able to feed the info to the machine, but the apps needed for broadcast are far more taxing on the system than even the hog that is Color. Avid Media composer even with a mojo is a beast that wants the fastest machine possible. And a decent cutter can bog down even an 8 core Mac Pro with a few streams of Pro Res 422 let along uncompressed 10 bit HD.
Then you have the same old problem.... PCI. There are not too many capture cards for firewire 800, and even in the age of tapeless camcorders a capture card is still ideal for bringing in uncompressed footage, which most tapeless cams don't record. And if you do have a P2 or XDCAM body, you'll need that capture card for cross conversion.
Lastly, that server based solution, for sending in that HD or uncompressed HD isn't going to do it over ethernet, it's going to need 2Gbit or 4Gbit Fibre channel which needs a PCI card.
Towers will be here for more than 5 or 10 years. They may get smaller, or look different, but they will be here.
So?
The headless systems are NEEDED there definately will be need for the towers and the likes.
After the said 10-15 years,hell,things will look way,way different.
Yes, this is true.
Nice chatting.
That's a real waste of funds at that point.
