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Vince: I am a Toaster 3-D animator. I don't use my Toaster to work with 'real live' video much at all, but I've been following your questions with some interest. Unfortunately, it's been fairly quiet from the Toaster side, so here's my $.02. . . I DL'd the Toria.JPG picture and looked at it. It was clean, but didn't have much high frequency information (the 'Headline News' logo was far blurrier than I get off of the local cable feed of CNN [& I KNOW their signal is pretty dirty]). I assume that was because it came from 3/4" ? I will DL your new images and check them out. I have never heard any mention of Gamma in reference to the way the Toaster processes video. I have heard that the digital video inside the Toaster is processed as D-2 (8bits @ 4xSub-carrier). My assumption would be that the Toaster has a linear response curve (ie: the video level coming out = the video level going in). If you have included a single scanline grey ramp ('linear sweep' as you call it) on these digitzed images, the best thing I can think of doing is loading the image into ToasterPaint, saving it off in the Toaster Framestore format, then re-loading the image and saving it off in the original RGB format. I could then JPEG this file and send it to you. You could then compare the grey ramps, and see if they have been affected by being converted into Toaster Framestores. (As far as I know, the Toaster Framestore format is basically a dump of the digital video buffer, so it would be a good representative of what happens to video in the Toaster.) I'll go ahead and upload the results of my tests along with a single frame from an animated sequence I made using LightWave. The image should be of particular interest to you since it is a freeze-frame from a laserdisc copy of 'Terminator 2'. I was trying to duplicate the holes in the T-2000's chest after he was first shot by Schwarzenegger in the hallway of the shopping mall. The image held up pretty well for coming off of my 10 year old laserdisc player and having gone through the Toaster Framestore buffers, into LightWave, and back out as an RGB image. Hope this is of some use . . . Keep On Toastin' Erik Flom