Live!
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Why are you so hot on Live!, Larry? I have played with Live! for several
hours on end, with the software as of January 1987. I own a Digi-View. I
am convinced it takes longer to produce a good image with Live! than with
Digi-View. Also, the two do not compare in image quality. Which is most
important to people who want digitized video images, quality or real-time
speed? I can think of very few applications of real-time digitizing, if it
doesn't look real. Maybe I'm not using my imagination, but… New Tek is
also working on a stabilizer that lets them capture from video tape still
frames, they used it to make the soon-to-be-famous Maxine Headroom demo
they showed at COMDEX. (This was a 2-3 minute rolling demo of HAM
animation with digitized sound.)
Mimetics says they'll have a $200 frame grabber for their $600 frame buffer
board, the 24 bit-deep one. That looks like fun. They are working with
New Tek on future projects. You can send your Digi-View DGVW files to this
frame buffer for display in full detail. My rumor scouts say that there
are several companies working on other real-time digitizers as well.