I think they were leaning towards a hybrid, but as it was they were never able to come out with anything inbetween the 2K and Resolve. Somebody should write The History of daVinci Systems and talk about the internal war in the company over whether the next-generation color-corrector in 2004 should have been hardware or software. Now, we have virtually unlimited power windows plus ColorTrace and resolution independence for $995. And a Defocus Tier was another $50,000, though it also provided another window. For example, most of our daVinci 2K's could only do a maximum of 2 power windows, because each Power Tier (a physical board) that supplied additional windows cost $50,000. At the same time, because of its reliance on hardware, you were very limited in how far you could go with it. The daVinci 2K was limited to 2K (and we primarily did HD on it), but it was a fast, efficient platform for its time. Click to expand.It's a different thing when you have purpose-built hardware and software designed together.
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