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Hi there, I've read the replies to your question, just to let you know where this message fits in. I recently aquired the DPS Par board and I love it. The quality is very good. Previously, I had rendered to a 3/4 Umatic (Industrial quality video) and the results were good. The PAR board makes Umatic look like a home movie. Keep in mind, however, that quality is really quite subjective. I've "crash recorded" stuff right off the PAR board onto Betacam SP decks and the results are quite good. The video editor I work with thinks the quality is great. I haven't put a wave form monitor or vectorscope to the output of the PAR, but since it's comming from DPS, I'd think the signal would be good. Understand that the PAR board will do simple cut and splice edits. It won't let you do fancy fades and wipes between scenes. Use video post for that stuff. Also, to get the best results from the PAR board, you have to render to a resolution of 720×480. In fact, this resolution is part of the reason stuff looks so good off the PAR board. Using my old method, rendering for a Targa + for step-frame animation, the resolution was 512×480. Also, the higher resolution tells you that the output bandwidth of the PAR board is quite high.