#Truevision vs Matrox
08-Jul-94 17:48:30
Sb: #111832-#Truevision vs Matrox
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: MARTIN G FOSTER 70303,456
You shouldn't beleive everything you read, Martin <g>
The review in AV Video magazine was a total joke. The reviewer had completely
failed to set up the system, and when it was shipped back to Matrox to use at a
trade show they were horrified to find out the guy had already written and
published the article (the MAX sytem he shipped back was practically
unuseable).
The MAX gets roughly 25% more throughput with one HD, and the quality is
spectacular. I'll be checking out the 2 HD RAID as soon as the software is
past alpha stage. I think they're getting visually lossless jpeg right now
with it, but I don't know what the setup is.
I don't want to say the MAX is superior to the PAR, because that's a loaded
statement, and the two differ in philosophy, but I can confidently say the
MAX's output is not inferior to the PAR's, rather in most circumstances it
would be noticeably better.
John Tissavary (LUNA cie)