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I posted a message about this deck a little bit ago. Yes, it sounds too good to be true, but Sony has this deck out and it is shipping now. It looks like DTI (my company) will be carrying it for the animation and desktop video markets (no video suites … don't want to piss-off the big-boy video houses ya'know). The deck is a frame accurate, BetaCAM SP deck. It is basically stripped down and doesn't come standard with front panel editing features commonly found on the other BetaSP decks. But it does come with TBC & Timecode and is ready for animation. It only has 2 channels of audio and requires metal tape to provide high enough spec's (other decks can use the Oxide tapes with acceptable performance). All in all, it is a great deck…nicely built and designed. The list price is something like $9,495 (or very close to that). With this deck, I can't see why anyone would by a $7k S-VHS deck. If you are interested further … send some E-mail. Ang