CompuServe Messages

It sounds like the U-80 is fairly equivalent to the Panasonic AG-19xx machines. I have an older Mitsubishi VHS that doesn't do that sort of stuff. The Videodisk recording does have some good advantages such as durability and random access. Most of the video disk formats cannot be played on a regular LD player so unless you have access to a compatible player you cannot make dupes from the first generation although the service bureau could. We simply cannot afford one at this point. JPEG stuff has its advantages and disadvantages. It is easier to transfer and store the JPEG images because of the smaller size. There is some loss involved depending on the image and the compression values used and it does take some time to decompress them. I think we would do quotes based on the type of files we would be working from. The slowest machine used for processing will be a 25mHz 3000 so uncompressing will happen at a reasonable pace. Both ADPro and IMFc seem to uncompress JPEGs ata good clip. If tape is used to send files then compression should not be a big issue. A 250meg tape will hold 500 500k size images. We plan to be rather inexpensive without giving up final quality. We can arrange transfer to other media based on cost of rental for short term use of the proper machine. Just about anything is rentable in our marketplace.