CompuServe Messages

HQ5 has a hard performance requirement of 5M per second sustained over entire drive surface, and like the previous modes better speed gets better results. Again, in our original FAQ and other material fully lossless D2 occurs at from 8 to 12M sustained with any video; some video can be lossless at lower rates (depends on the complexity and combination of colors, etc.), but most video is going to require some compression to maintain playback speed at rates below that. For slower drives, we are still working on modifications to VTASC to more successfully preserve quality in standard and extended mode. There are likely to be limits to that, but we don't think we've reached them yet and we continue to press the issue. For the moment though, the entire team has made backup the priority, and this will likely continue until we have this reliable, at which point we plan to post an interim update here and on our BBS and ftp.newtek.com. Then we continue working toward the rest of 4.1.