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Quote from: Elantric on June 13, 2017, 07:07:59 PM


Still extremely happy with my Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=6125.msg123696#msg123696
It was built during the Rick Gembar era at the Custom shop

Sad those days are over
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/24367020/
Gibson Net income
2012 $1.1B
2013 $-3.4B (that's minus)
2014 $-2.4B
2015 $-15.6B (right, MINUS 15.6 BILLION, I'm guessing it's the robot crap)
2016 $-1.8B


http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?205115-The-absolute-end-of-an-era-Rick-Gembar-is-no-longer-with-Gibson
http://www.mylespaul.com/threads/what-is-going-on-at-gibson.387170/
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/a-modern-history-of-the-gibson-custom-shop-1
from r/Guitar






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http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/cs/revenue-financial.gibson_brands_inc.b1826f5356393af3.html


IMHO  - Gibsons $$ problems and poor net income are in large part due to  Henry J's buying spree spending habits.
He has the ultimate G.A.S.

While we all know he bought Steinberger and Opcode systems and Kramer guitars and Valley Arts guitars and killed those brands

He was using Gibson guitar manufacturing profits to finance purchasing non guitar related companies : Baldwin piano Wurlitzer jukeboxes, Cakewalk, Onkyo (Pioneer), Stanton, Cerwin Vega, Tascam (TEAC), Phillips Electronics, KRK , the Universal Ampitheater) - to pursue his "LifeStyle Brand" goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Guitar_Corporation


He  purchased harmony-central a few years back to manage the online  Forum Content ,

remember Gibson is no longer just a guitar company - it's Gibson Brands - and those net profit losses reflect a lot of non-Guitar related negative cash flow


And throwing millions $$ away on R&D for Auto Tuners few folks want
https://www.tronicaltune.com/about-us

The issue is his "cash cow" ( the Gibson Les Paul) sales have declined  -in large part due to Slash and GnR ( or suitable equivalent popular act playing Les Paul's )not being as popular on the Billboard charts , the high $$$ Gibson dealer "buy in" terms and rising costs for the desirable New LP models priced more than a grand piano, and larger market competition from Used Gibson Guitars in effective global used gear marketing channels that never existed decades ago (Reverb, Ebay, Cragslist).


And "new" Gibson being blown out below Dealer cost


Excellent resource for Gibson Les Pauls
http://www.gibsontraditional.com/


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8K Cinema

http://www.red.com/products/epicw-8k#techspecs
http://www.red.com/store/products/red-epic-w-brain-with-helium-8k-s35-sensor

http://www.red.com/products/epicw-8k#techspecs


http://www.sharp-world.com/corporate/news/171107_2.html
Sharp Announces 8C-B60A 8K Professional Camcorder
World's First*1: Realizes Shooting, Recording, Playback, and Line Output of 8K (60p*2) Images in One Package*3
Sharp Corporation announces the release of the 8C-B60A 8K (60p) professional camcorder, a world's first, integrating capabilities for video shooting and recording, playback, and line output. The 8C-B60A was developed with technical cooperation from Astrodesign, Inc.*4 (Head office: Ota, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shigeaki Suzuki), a company possessing 8K image technologies.

Besides the ability to shoot images in high resolution 8K (60p), this camcorder is designed to offer ease of use in shooting and recording and to lessen the burden on the camera operator in the post-recording editing process. The 8C-B60A's image pickup device is a large, Super 35-mm-equivalent CMOS image sensor with 33 million pixels. Compression utilizes a coding method*5 that exerts minimal burden on the CPU, thus enabling efficient 8K (60p)-image editing and approximately 40 minutes of continuous recording (when using the bundled 2-TB SSD pack). Because it allows real-time output of 8K uncompressed images at the same time that recording is taking place, the 8C-B60A can be used for live transmissions as well.

With this professional-use camcorder as the entry point to the creation of 8K images, Sharp is striving to disseminate 8K image content in its aim of establishing an 8K ecosystem at the earliest possible date.

The 8C-B60A 8K professional camcorder will be on display at the Sharp booth at the International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition 2017 (Inter BEE 2017) at the Makuhari Messe in Mihama, Chiba, Japan from November 15 to 17, 2017.

Product name   8K Professional Camcorder
Model name   8C-B60A
Suggested retail price   8,800,000 yen (tax not included)
Date of introduction   December 2017
Major Features

1. World's first camcorder integrating capabilities for video shooting and recording, playback, and line output for 8K (60p).
2. Compatible with 8K (60p) shooting thanks to a large, Super 35-mm-equivalent CMOS image sensor with 33 million pixels.
3. Realizes 4:2:2 sampling*6 and 10-bit recording of 8K (60p) images. A compression method that exerts low burden on the CPU makes editing more efficient and allows approximately 40 minutes of continuous recording (when using 2TB SSD pack).
4. Real-time output of uncompressed 8K (60P) images can be performed simultaneously with recording (equipped with quad-link 12G-SDI output terminal), making possible live 8K transmissions and replay output after recording.
5. Built-in SSD back slot for recording media. Realizes one-person operation at 8K shooting with V-mount battery drive.
*1 As of July 2017. (based on Sharp survey)
*2 Displays 60 frames per second (progressive).
*3 The 8C-B60A requires a commercially available lens, viewfinder, microphone, etc.
*4 Business fields: Design, manufacture, and sale of video and still image peripherals and software, HDTV studio peripherals, digital-broadcast-related peripherals, and display measuring instruments; sale of modules and systems related to communication, control, and measurement.
*5 Grass Valley HQX Codec
*6 One of the standardized methods for sampling digital video signals.