CompuServe Messages

I don't know how long you can keep it up, Lou, but nice work. I have gone through phases of buying electronics related magazines starting with Electronic Musician, then Amiga World, then Videomaker, Multimedia World and now Desktop Video (got #3 in the mail on Tuesday). I am sure that as an insider you have seen subscriber interest rise and fall as they see repition of articles over the years. For me there is always this point of diminishing returns. I have hit that with Electronic Musician. Videomaker hooks me for a while and then I burn out and wonder why I subscribed. New Media is nice because I don't pay, but the editorial content is also pretty light in comparison to what you are trying to do with DTV. More directly, can I make one GIANT suggestion? Every so often, AW does a "genlock shootout." I have always liked those. But you guys could do the clone market a big favor by doing a VGA to NTSC shootout. Put the Willow Desktop Video, the Mediator, the Magni, the Video VGA, etc on the scope with some test images and show us which ones are worth the money. I read Videograper, AV Video, and other mags and I have never seen a PC article about the quality of these devices. On a related note, I really appreciated the article/mini-review of the four Amiga video cards (Opal, IV24, etc) in this latest issue. It was a tad thin but it at least let me see the four products somewhat compared. That article could be greatly expanded and would really benefit Amiga video people.