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John, It's not that easy to discuss the IV24 well, since it's true impact (pardon the pun) is visual. The board does have this strange habit of having a few pixels that sparkel for the first 10 minutes that the machine is powered up. I'm not sure if it is a problem configuring some of the boards software controlled fine tuning controls or a matter of the board warming up a bit and coming up to full specs. After the ten minutes there is no visual artifact present, and the flicker fixer is just as good as my A3000's one. One of the great features of this board is both that you can render the 24 bit graphics to the computer monitor and you can still have a flickerless non-interlace display (unfortunately if you wish to output to a composite monitor/recorder you have to shift back to interlaced/flickering mode (a very simple procedure – just hit alt-F2 and it toggles it on/off). The two problems I have is the need to reboot to shift into and out of "Genlock Mode". From the docs, it indicates that this is due to the Amiga's requirements, rather than the IV24 board. The second problem is the erratic computer video quality, while in "Genlock Mode" (which is why it isn't a satisfactory solution to the first problem, to default always to the board's "Genlock Mode"). Using a video camera, the image is locked in well, but using my VCR's video output (fed from it's tuner) causes my monitor to jump about every few minutes (nothing terrible, just a bit annoying), and that's not even when it is actively genlocking with the signal. I am hoping that when I acquire a RGB converter (ordered today) that this problem will go away (I doubt it, but hope springs eternal). The image from the board is fantastic. Unfortuantely the simple software that loads the IFF24 images, distorts these images somewhat, and a fix is in the works. MacroPaint is far more buggy, and it is very easy to crash things by using this software for more than ten minutes. MacroPaint is VERY picky about [ MORE ]