CompuServe Messages

Wes, There are folks around who know way more than me, but I'll go out on a limb here. My understanding is that RGB retains slightly higher quality because it hasn't been translated into an NTSC signal prior to storage. RGB files tend to be smaller than FSs, sometimes by a lot. FSs are usually about 700k, where my RGBs usually come in at about 330k before Pegging. The only problem with rendering to tape is wear on the deck. On my AG-7750, the wear ratio between the capstan (I think) and the heads was weird because I had been rendering to tape. Some components require replacement after a certain number of hours (on the AG). My dealer recommended rendering to disk, and then dumping frames so the deck wasn't sitting around waiting on LW to render. I don't know if this applies to the Sanyo. Note: the Pegger manual says extracting JPEGs to FS will show artifacting, though I didn't see any on tests JPEG'd at 85% quality. I didn't notice any artifacting on RGB at the same setting during 1 minute of animation. Lastly, Jim Broek suggested trying the Talk command to stop the serial port from talking back to the toaster. My BCD manual says TALK0 is the power up config, but that the software sets TALK1 when it is run. I'm going to try TALK0, TALK1, and TALK2 tonight. I'll let you know. Good Luck. Kent Lidke Helo Pilot on AutoPilot