Is Targa+64 NTSC good?
19-Apr-93 23:51:21
Sb: #40863-Is Targa+64 NTSC good?
Fm: Bailey Brown 73020,3442
To: Ana Francisca Gervas 70624,673
Ana,
I am a unix programmer at work, but at home I am a PC guy with a AMI 486DX2/66
VLB with 16meg (one 16meg simm with room for 3 more), an 877meg SCSI-2 hard
drive, local bus SCSI-2 controller and local bus S3 805 graphics, Nec 4FG
monitor, and a Toshiba XM-3401B CD in an 8bay tower case. The S3 805 board
(made by NDI) works well with 3DS because it can use the 1024x768x256 mode for
wireframe editing and 640x480x24bit for rendering. Thanks for the explanation
of RGB->NTSC encoding. I think I will use onboard encoding for now and get the
external encoder later if I need it. I talked to a video mailorder place and
they said the Sony encoder for the EVO-9650 costs about $2K. Someone was
telling me about the Matrox Professional Producer board. He said it is as good
as the ATVista for about half the price. Have you heard anything about this
board? I am tempted to sticke with the known quantity–Targa+–but the idea of
getting much better quality at the same price from a company I've heard of
before is appealing.
Bailey