Quote Originally Posted by jasonrudolph View Post
Barco's digital light would be the top end of the digital lighting market, closer to the equivalent of the 1200 watt fixtures.
Yes and no....the units are not nearly as bright as the claims that are made. One you start pushing content though it....it is almost the same as DL.3.....most probably b/c DL.3 is a single lamp source whereas the BARCO uses 4. In addition to "light optimization" which Hippo still hasn't really figured out how to handle for "digital lighting" applications.

Quote Originally Posted by jasonrudolph View Post
The DL3 would be a little closer to the 575 watt fixtures.
Personally I'd put DL.2s closer to 575 watt fixtures and DL.3s closer to 700 watt ones based on my experiences with both.

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Barco doesn't own Green Hippo, they are licensing a version of it for their digital light, and it is not just a regular hippo, it is a customized version of it.
Yup....and not nearly as good as a regular Hippo either.

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Also, their digital light has a number of unique features that make it more of a digital light, than the DLs from high end which are really just moving projectors with a dowser on it.
Totally true for DL.1, but not for DL.2 and DL.3....they have got some really nice features with the on-board server...."collage" being just one of them.

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I'm sure there will be changes to the product lines in the future (maybe no more cristie projectors in the DLs) and some changes to the servers, but personally, I much prefer the Hippo to the axon, and I hope they go more towards that route than towards the axon.
I agree that it is going to be interesting to see what happens, but I think ultimately it will really be a good marriage of companies.....I have to disagree with you on the Hippos though.....far too clunky for my programming tastes....AXON is really great for certain things.....and for anything bigger.....I go with CATALYST of course