#Is the PAR good enough??
17-May-94 21:34:19
Sb: #82274-#Is the PAR good enough??
Fm: Adib Nasle 72722,2052
To: Wesley Helms 71603,3636
Data Translation's Media 100 system also uses a variable compression scheme.
HOWEVER,
1) it is Mac based.
2) a typical system which still, in my opinion, is not as good as a
Toaster/Flyer setup costs $20,000 without the computer
3) the cheapest setup is $12,000 without the computer.
4) the demo video they have shows the capabilities of the system
and it is impressive. The image quality is excellent. I could tell
no artifacting at all. They claimed it was BetaSP quality. I can
only imagine what the Flyers D2 will be like!
There is also another company (Cineware?) that has a PC based system. The
image quality looks like 2nd generation SVHS and it costs almost as much as a
Flyer.
In light of such pricing, I think we all owe a lot of gratitude to Newtek for
making this technology profusely affordable for all video enthusiasts.