THE FUTURE IS WOW
11.13.08This is a new Toshiba commercial, and it’s apparently some kind of technomarvelogical advance-amajig.
* The TV ad was shot using 200 Toshiba Gigashot Cameras: the highest number of moving image cameras ever used in a film sequence
* This particular technique, viewing looping action in 360 degrees, has never been done before
*The time spent processing footage from 200 cameras was over four weeks – 24 hours a day seven days a week!
* In terms of data, this is one of the biggest jobs a post-production house has ever taken on – 20TB of data
* New offline and online editing software had to be specifically built for the job
* Soundtrack is provided by Crystal Castles
* Integrated campaign to promote Toshiba’s new range of upscaling products – TV, DVD and laptops – that convert standard definition TV and DVD images to near high-definition quality [Cinematical]
20 Terabytes, that’s a lot. I heard while they were editing it, the connection was about to come loose until Doc Brown ran in and used his body as a conductor and then fell down afterwards and his hair looked all crazy and had smoke coming out of it. Seriously though, why go through all that work for a chick throwing paint and a dude twirling a flag? Needs at the very least a tiger eating a chicken or a couple domesticated hyenas if you ask me.
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This makes the 2 different “alternate view” angles on porn DVD really lame.
You know, that’s a nice commercial and all, but can it help me improve my sniping while playing Halo with a 9 year old phenom from Brussels? Didn’t fucking think so.
Looks like I picked the right time to start taking acid again.
In related news, I just bought an answering machine.
Did they really need to go through all that effort to let me know that my monitor needs to be upgraded? The DNA stains told me that.
Looks at J’s comment with all the pederast/NAMBLA potential dressed up and right-the-fuck there on a silver platter… decides to puss out for some reason.
The more I look at it, the more I wonder why the hell we’re wasting technology. Shouldn’t we have flying cars and a cure for cancer by now? Instead, we have 360° video of people doing stupid things.
Mankind should be extinct by now.
Who fucking cares. I can do the same thing by swinging around my webcam with a fishing rod. Toshiba is obviously like that kid at the party that has all the totally bogus, exaggerated, stories that never happened. I hate that fuckin kid.
20TB…psshh…probably more like 20mb.
They need to set this rig up and capture me shooting my load five yards into a Dixie cup.
I can’t wait to see Ed Powers newest Dirty Debutantes featuring this new technology.
I’d pay good money to know what Glen thought of that commercial. Well, not good money. *wipes ass with $5 bill* Okay, I’m ready to settle up.
Dude, that shit made me more motion sick than Cloverfield.
One more reason to wonder what the fuck is wrong with the Japanese.
Domesticated hyenas? Y’know, if it wasn’t for the batshit crazy natives, the diseases, the Flintstones technology, the man-eating fauna and the dinosaurs, i’d really like to visit Africa.
I’m going to use this set-up for my next snuff film.
Toshiba, Japanese for “OK, aaaaaannnnnnd… what?”
It would have been a shit load better if that was a shirtless Bale dropping and doing those pushups. F You Toshiba!
Quentin Tarantino would use this to film feet.
“* This particular technique, viewing looping action in 360 degrees, has never been done before”
Because it’s retarded. They didn’t loop the shit in The Matrix for precisely that reason. What did they get their film degrees from YouTube University?
It’s amazing that the Japanese can do this shit, but they can’t fix their fucking eyes.
Why didn’t they just walk a camera in circles around Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali? Would have been cheaper.
McGizz would use this technology to film a plate of nachos.
All this proves is that, with infinite technology and budget, AV nerds still come up with some pretty corny bullshit.
So what happens? You show these people about to piss everyone off by throwing paint at them, but we never get the payoff of the big brawl at the end?
The good news is that, during filming, there were 200 fewer Toshiba Gigashot cameras out there trying to get upskirt pics of Japanese schoolgirls.
We have this kind of technology, but I can’t get free porno on the internet?
*someone whispers in Jack’s ear*
Really? Fuck you guys, I’m never coming back!
In terms of data, this is one of the biggest jobs a post-production house has ever taken on – 20TB of data
The biggest job? Digitally remastering Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End to make it look like Orlando Bloom was actually interested in girls.
Sydney Lumet would use it to film young naked boys.
Steven Spielberg would use it to film George Lucas raping Indiana Jones.
Gigashot sounds like it should be the end of the world’s largest gangbang.
The future is potato chips that makes lard dribble out of your asshole?
Tyler Perry did the same thing using 200 Jigashot cameras.
Soundtrack is provided by Crystal Castles
Isn’t that the annoying video game with the ball instead of a joystick?
I have a nickname for 20 TB of data. I like to call it “one quarter of my porn collection”.
Last time I viewed this type of looping action was a KKK rally!
Say hi to ya mutha for me
Big-fucking-whoop. I once took a DUEL myspace photo in my bathroom. That’s right ladies: two cameras, two extended arms, four mirror reflections and plus my dick was hanging out.
Really, 20TB isn’t that big when you take into consideration that pretentiousness accounts for about 15 of ‘em.
Vanilla Ice’s Cool As Ice was shot on 200 Wiggabite cameras.
If terrorists could “up” the production value of their beheading videos and start shooting them like this…well my friends, then they just couldn’t be called terrorists anymore, now could they?
Toshiba is hoping this commercial has a big impact on their revenue in England, based on the fact that the camera adds 10 pounds.
New Up!
itty nick I’d nom that if it weren’t so goddamned terrible.
I once saw a video of some chick fucking 20 Terabytes…God I love the bangbros.
*kisses fingers, points up to heaven, pounds chest twice, wipes tear from eyes*
And do these cameras come equipped with jet packs? No? Waste of my time Toshiba. Waste. Of. My. Time.
I like to pretend that somewhere out in the world, Rosie from ‘The Jetsons’ just read this article and had a gushing orgasm after the “20 Terabytes” part.
Toshiba don’t have to worry about their revenue in England. Their printer leasing racket would make the Sopranos blush.
I watched that whole thing and then thought:
“Meh” followed by “I wonder if the old guy on CSI who does the autopsies makes more than someone who actually does autopsies?”
And I already have a Sony TV Toshiba, so buggar off.
d00d, ths is totally fake. all those peeple are cgi. they just told u a bunch a shit to make it seem like they spent a bunch a $ on this comerrshal. FAKE.
…………….Whoops, this was supposed to go on YouTube.