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#Transport Controller

    24-Aug-88 06:25:17
Sb: #Transport Controller
Fm: Tim Eckel 74030,3340
To: Stan Kalisher
Stan, Many times I wanted to purchase a single-frame recording VCR like the SONY SLHF-1000 or the Panasonic AG-1950 to record my animations to video tape. The only problem is that unless I want to stand in front of the VCR and hit <RECORD-FRAME> after each rendered frame, I would have to purchase a $2300.00 controller unit to be used with a $500.00 driver from Byte-By-Byte! And becides that, the cost of the VCR itself, a total cost of only $7000.00 !!! It would cost this much because I would have to use a "Professional" VCR instead of the ones mentioned earlier that cost around $1200.00. This is why I was wondering if Impulse was thinking about supporting the Transport Controller by MicroIllusions. With this hooked up to TSilver, and one of the above mentioned VCRs, for only a couple thousand dollars, anyone could have and in-house graphic studio. I haven't talked with MicroIllusions yet about the controller becuase the the only software that will support it right now it Videoscape-3D (Yawn). If you dicide to support the product, or you have something else up your sleave, write me. I'll start saving my pennies for a VCR. Tim Eckel