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OK I got a little confused with all your res vs res stuff but having all that in print from true vision I do understand what your saying and it's really no different than what I said previously. The difference in the +64 vs +16/32 is zip for rendering 3DS to NTSC video. I don't care if the +64 can do 5000 lines at 8 bit color using whosywhatsits new $10,000 software. If it doesn't get me any higher than 512X486X32bit for my rendering system than why spend the extra bucks for it? Regarding the 4:1 price ratio I was comparing card output vs card + output ie you can't just compare the ATVista alone because one usually needs an encoder to have the same signal format as the Targa+. I'm not aware of a tape deck that has RGB input, are you? The toaster test WAS seen rendering on a live monitor for each frame and the results were still hands down for the Targa+ when stillstored from the Umatic. However I'm sure if you put a half a million dollars worth of high end broadcast stuff on the the 1500 purported resolution might be there. But all this is academic since what the toaster heads really want is a better quality picture for their animation without spending for all that high end stuff. Paul, what I saw was very poorly done antialiasing and a lot of chroma noise in the toaster picture with a fair amount of dot crawl. High res tends to get swamped with all these artifacts. PS- I know that a 700 line 62db camera always looks better than a 500 line 56 db camera on a 400 line industrial monitor. Even Cecil Smith knows this but can't offer a valid explanation for it. Umatic fanatic? No, but I do believe, currently, you won't find a better bang for the buck. 5850's are going for $2750 and DQ50P's are hard to find but generally get 500-600 bucks. How about a Beta SP digital wannabe T-shirt.