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Please keep us all posted on your comparisons. My company is considering the MAX, but we are no way video output experts. I have had the opportunity to dump about 6 sec of 3D animation to plain VHS tape via a MAX on loan to my VAR – I thought it looked great, and I couldn't see any compression artifacts until he pointed them out to me. (Our consumer-level medium is VHS tapes). We do have the option of going the Exabyte/Abekas route instead (we already have an Exabyte), but the capacity to do truecolor realtime tests and demo tapes ourselves is really tempting, (then renting a beta deck to do masters). We are not likely to do the character-generation and post-prod work ourselves, i.e. no plans to get involved in Matrox Studio, so maybe the MAX is overkill for us.(?). The particular MAX system I tried, which was the system being shipped around to different shows and conferences, was appallingly crash-prone. Any comments on this? The problem was aggravated after it had been working a couple of hours, and was exacerbated by any kind of editing efforts – have you had such problems on your system? Could this be due to all the shipping stresses, or the newest software version which was loaded on just before shipping (about a week and a half ago). Since you are actually working with it, any feedback will be appreciated – it will be a BIG outlay for us, if we get it, and I'd sure hate to make such an expensive mistake. Thanks.. Gayle G de N, SAVANTES