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Doug- Define Broadcast quality. The signal quality from the Magni is certainly acceptable for broadcast purposes. In fact, in a pinch, I've used the Magni to produce house sync for on line production of a TV commercial. Although 8 bit color and non frame accuracy animation has its technical problems for broadcast, this has nothing to do with the Magni signal output. What specific test methods have you performed to evaluate the signal purity from the Magni and what were those results? I'm sure that Magni engineers would be most curious about your conclusions. I had reported a slight chroma burst rise distortion in one of their earlier cards and they promptly RMA repaired it. Remember the GIGO rule "Garbage In -Garbage Out" If you feed a FLC file to the Magni its output will not meet RS-170(A) standards. However, feed it a still 640X480 8 bit signal and the video output will pass for broadcast at most TV stations. I've never had a complaint with my stuff. My definition of Broadcast Quality is minimum to be FCC legal. But then my discipline is broadcast engineering not advertising and marketing where buzz words are used to impress others. I know you were specifically refering to animation, and with that I agree the Magni can not output an FCC legal video signal but you made it sound like the Magni has too low of a signal quality to be used in broadcast which is just not true!