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Greg, I disagree with the AT-Vista for broadcast and the Targa+ being pro/industrial and you getting what you pay for – sometimes you pay for more than you need. The reason being is that many of us have agreed that 512x486x24bit with field rendering is the way to go and the targa+ has the same quality RGB out as the AT-Vista when using a recordable laser-disk or going to a high-quality transcoder for output to component vtr's. For this reason it has lost much of it's appeal. It does have higher resolutions and it's co-processor which is nice for paint packages, but even Ron Scott isn't recommending it any more – he suggests putting your money into more RAM for his application, HiresQFX 3.0 and buying a non-coprocessed dumb frame-buffer. With direct to digital on Exabyte tapes to Abekas on the horizon I think the Vista has had it's day.