Yeah. This is enterprise-level equipment, not intended for the broad consumer market.

Try looking at Aputure, Nanlite, or Quasar as alternatives.

If you need something a little cheaper look into the AX1, it does basically the same thing. Its the predecessor to the Titan and people don't really buy them much anymore so you can get them pretty cheap.

There are Aputure or Nanlite or Quasar tubes that you can try to look at as an alternative

You can rent them. If you rent on a Friday, You get charged for 1 day and you can return them monday morning.

I said this in response to another comment earlier but ill copy paste it here for you because I think it will be helpful "If you need something a little cheaper look into the AX1, it does basically the same thing. Its the predecessor to the Titan and people don't really buy them much anymore so you can get them pretty cheap."

So awesome

The price hurts, but after owning a kit of 4 personally with plans to get at least another 4, they’re 100% worth their cost. They are bar none, the best tube light made. The biggest differentiating factors between Astera tubes and other brands is that these have built in CRMX, built in battery with a sophisticated battery management system, an IP rating, and 16 individually controllable pixels . Most other cheaper tube lights are only 1 pixel (and thus can’t run any kind of chase effect), have to be powered by AC or use a clunky external battery, has to be controlled by a finicky Bluetooth app, or wired DMX with the use of an adapter cable. There literally isn’t any other product with this feature set other than the Titans (and their little brother, the Helios). It’s worth mentioning too that they have extremely good ROI as a rental item for rental houses/owner ops. In my area (Washington DC), an 8 tube kit of Titans costs about $650/day to rent, roughly 8% of their cost. By contrast, most other lighting fixtures tend to rent at 3-5% of their value. My set of 4 titans easily laid itself off within a year of owning them and they come in handy on virtually every production I work on.

The AX1 is the predecessor to the Titan and is much cheaper than the Titan currently. You can also look into Aputure and Quasar. If you are deadset on getting something like the Titan but it costs more than you can justify, you can call a lighting company like the one I work for and we can sell you used rental stock. You can get them a lot cheaper this way and there is basically no downside. I cant vouch for other companies but the rental stock we sell have absolutely no practical issues, just cosmetic things like scuffs. I personally do health and function tests on them before they are given to the customer. Hope this helps

@@kyleclark4242 Thank you so much! I'm not in the market and the moment but it's definitely something I would like to pick up in the future

@@MikeyBeDrumming The company I work for is Wavelength Lighting, our website is easy to find. If you ever need lights give us a call.

It seems every set you go onto has them these days.

That’s because they are not intended for amateurs.

Thought exactly the same hahah. When he said 800, my brain was like yea for the whole set its kind of reasonable hmm. And then came the "foR onE TuBe"

Well he also said these were specifically for pro usage and someone working like him thats actually not out of question since his ROI will be farely quick. There are cheapers options out there if you are wanting something to more play with.

It's a really decent price for professional work - like movie or TV sets, or for production companies that do a lot of projects (music videos, etc.). It's not necessarily intended for casual or hobby users.

@@Bad_Wolf_Media LOL ... No ...

@@Bad_Wolf_Media easy to build something similar for less than 50,-

I see them everywhere at german events, and noticed them in movies too. There is absolutely a market for them

@@melog72 No it isn’t. These things are all over the industry for a reason. They are fantastic units.