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James, >> Everyone seems to be really interested in the MAX and PAR. I was thinking about it last night and it just doesn't seem realistic. For one, you'd need an enormous amount of harddisk space to store a full animation (3-5 or more mintues worth).<< You are missing the point, mate. The animation in a PAR or MAX is compressed with JPEG and that means it is compressed by factors of 10:1 to 30:1. If full-motion, uncompressed video needs a sustainable 27mb/sec transfer speed (like an Abekas), video compressed at a 10:1 ratio would need 2.7mb/sec transfer speed (a special single hardrive could manage this). No tricks, just logic <g>.