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#PAR News Flash!

    18-Feb-94 15:26:34
Sb: #84795-#PAR News Flash!
Fm: Paul Lind 71543,2104
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
The actual quote stated that JPEG compressed lossy realtime playback devices like the PAR will not replace frame by frame animation. There are way too many people who will not accept the quality loss associated with the PAR. I still stand by that statement. We've actually run the PAR playback for a number of our broadcast clients and they all said no way. Hence the purchase of the Abekas and Acom. If they had said, "hey we can't tell the difference", then quite obviously we wouldn't have spent all the money on the DDR's. Now obviously uncompressed playback devices that operate in realtime are already prevelant throughout the marketplace, and they may well play a part in killing frame by frame stuff. We'll be running both units this year for different types of work. If I didn't have the DDR's, I'd still be using the Diaquest units to achieve the quality necessitated by my market.