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Does anyone care to discuss the merits of the Visual Circuits Bit Blitzer product vs. the PAR? I attended the demo here in Minneapolis and am wondering if anyone has any comments… Check out the file in the libraries. The info file seems to be quite biased and incomplete. They list the availability of the PAR as "June 94?", although I am rendering to my PAR as I type! The file does not mention that the output is not genlockable (Is that a word?). I do like the ability to play files from memory and I wish the par had the scripting finctions of the Bit Blitzer (I'm sure that DPS is probably working on that…). The Bit Blitzer outputs directly to the VGA display and requires a Transcoder (included) to produce NTSC video. There appears to be no way to output to an NTSC monitor while working on the VGA display. Output to component video requires an additional (not yet available) module added to the transcoder. Video capture is not available. The quality of the animations was good with some compression artifacts evident (crosshatch pattern) especially during disk playback. The transitions and scripting functions were nice but do not include any fade type transitions. The system hung several times during the demo, which was explained as a "loose HD cable". The memory playback seemed very good. I would like to hear if anyone has seen a side by side comparison of the PAR vs. Bit Blitzer. The effect of the 10 modes of compression were unclear, and I did not understand if the compression was adaptive per frame as it is on the PAR, or if there were only 10 fixed levels. Any comments? –Nat'n