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>> 3-5 min's Martin, Well I wasn't pulling figures out of the air. I talked to the folks at DPS just the other day … and the math goes like this. The highest quality video (greater that S-VHS) is at between 2.5-3MB/sec. Only about 300 MB of the 540MB IDE can perform at these levels. Therefore you have either between 120-100 sec's of animation (1.5-2 min). As I said … I think that the PAR is going to be a great solution for _most_ (but not all) 3DS users… but not for the broadcast video person … who would probably benefit from the other feature of the IllPro … like charater generation .. having a real frame buffer … etc. I think there will be a place for both products. For the architect, engineer, industrial video user … the PAR will be just right (which represents about 3/4 of the installed base of 3DS). When this stuff finally comes out .. its going to be a lot of fun. BTW I actually saw a beta MAX at the Washington ITVA show (we also had a booth there). I was watching some really great "live video" playback that was captured realtime using the beta MAX system. The video was very nice .. and I'm talking with a lot of camera movement too .. so tricks.