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Hi James: I just got back from Comdex in Atlanta and had hoped to see the MAX up and running, better than it was in December at the Video Expo. So, it is real and has changed somewhat since December. Matrox has improved the user interface and has now defined the EISA SCSI controller card and hard drive that is approved for this application. The Matrox rep says it is still not available due to several bugs that need to be worked out but it has shipped to several "alpha/ beta" test sites. I asked when can we buy and he said about mid summer. The demo of animation was still the same rollercoaster animation I saw in December and it still was crashing the system after about 15 seconds of playback. The rep had to reboot the machine to re launch the software. He said that was still one of the bug fixes that is currently being tested by beta testers. I liked the file interface and the MAX had pretty good quality. The aliasing on diagonal edges looked about the same as the PAR and the pixelization in the busy areas of the picture looked the same as the PAR, so, given the proposed better file transfer rate of the MAX I would say that this buggy version that was being demoed was still not producing the far superior quality I have been hoping to see as predicted by all the crystal ball gazers on this product during the last few months. I understand that John Tissavary has one of these beta/alpha systems under test. Maybe he could further enlighten us as to how it works.