CompuServe Messages

Ang – Most of my work is in the video domain, I currently have two Targas, one a 32 and the other a 32plus and while I can change to 720x486x16 for viewing, I really need a 32bit board for painting at this resolution. The Targas have been great, no complaints. I haven't needed the higher resolution of the Vista in spite of its purported benefits. I find I get excellent results going to laser disk and then to Beta SP through the component link. And Beta SP is still better than Laser Disk. I'd buy the Digital Vista but its almost 3x's the price, and I'm sure its a great board but the focus on my systems is animation to video and I don't really need all the features of these boards as it is, but I will need to go out Beta Component. Also Sony's developement of Beta Digital is going to be a strong influence on the market IMHO and I find the Matrox daughter board concept an advantge as I think they will come out with a daughter board for Digital component. (Its a better gamble than going RGB for me anyway for which I know I would have to buy a digital converter.) Also with regard to the CCIR version, I recently learned that the NBC affiliate in Palm Desert hooked one up to a waveform/vectorscope, (I might add the engineer was *very* skeptical) and pronounced it stable and within FCC limits. Can't do better than that. I have two Cirrus Logic 640x480x24 for VGA and Windows when I need to work with square pixels, which occasionally I do for portfolio work. It does seem that I am in the minority with regard to this CCIR version but we each find our own niche, and the fact that TrueVision is also taking this course lends weight to the direction things are going in. However, I'm waiting to see what influence R3 may have on this before I finalise my plans. Thanks again for your input – JE