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>>The PAR was not so solid You better take this up with DPS as I found the output, on a WFM and VS, very stable. Infact, I found its patterns as stable as my tek pattern generator. >>you have a pc with 3DS but if you had the money you would get wavefront and a SGI as an example. I doubt it. While I have never owned a Wavefront / SGI I have sat through many demos and have gone up against them in bids and I would NOT trade my system $ for $ for a WF and SGI. Back in the days of 3DSr2 I would but not today. Sorry, but I'm beating the pants off of the WF in quality and efficiency. I'm not the only one here in town using 3DS to compete directly with the WF competition either. Bad example! >>As I mentioned before, I offer both options to my clients frame by frame or the MAX. But after I bring them into my office and show them our sample tape and real time output from all three systems and video of the scoping process they make there mind up very quickly. 95% go with max system. This is pointless as a comparison because I can go one better! I offer both FxF and PAR and now with the PAR 100% of my clients choose the PAR. Last year, before PAR I had two systems for FxF. After PAR I ditched both but then acquired another FxF system that came along for the ride with my editing system. I have never used it on a job. If you really wanted to compare you would offer the MAX and the PAR output at prorata pricing based on real costs to output based on capital outlay of each plus cost to do. ie. if you charged X amount for PAR then you would have to charge 3.5X amount for the MAX and 15x for the FxF. Maybe 8x if using Quickpass. 7. I'm not really prepared to debate the Abekas/accom costs as I have not inquired as to the real bottom line. While the unit itself may be in the low teens, I was not aware that it could only be run from an SGI which would substantially raise the cost to initiate this technology. I was led to believe these were stand alone recorders. If this is so then this technology is still out of reach of the upgrade path I mentioned. There are other emerging technologies in the 1:1 / no compression DDRs. The recent DPR by FAST can be run as a single channel for about the same $ as the MAX but requires at least VM Lite to implement. For YUV I/O it requires another YUV board and the thing uses 4:2:2:4 sampling. You could do this for under $20k and have a component NLE editing system too. The dual channel DPR would add another $2.5K. I'm sure there will be more options in DDRs in the near future but for now the MAX just seemed to be not worth the extra $. I really don't believe its slight added quality would have paid for the increase cost in more business.