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Here is a press release from MacroSystem's in Europe announcing their new U.S. Distributor. Translated from a FAX I received. I thought everyone would like to read it after the panic that was started with people claiming the Retina Z3 would never be sold in the States. The folks in Michigan misinformed me about all this and had no information about NoahJi's as told below. If you contact NoahJi's please tell them that you read David's post. Thanks. 🙂 Clip here —-8<——-8<———8<——-8<———8<———8<————– May 5, 1994, Witten, Germany MacroSystem GmbH of Germany Announces NoahJi's Exclusive United States Distributor Jorg Sprave, president of MacroSystem GmbH, located in Witten, Germany, is pleased to announce the appointment of NoahJi's as the exclusive distributor of MacroSystem product in the United States. Technical support, repair, and service will be handled by NoahJi's. Software updates for the V-Lab and the Retina will also be made available at a modest charge for current owners of these products. NoahJi's is the Amiga board division of Micro Reps, Inc. a 10-year-old distribution company. Eric Kloor, president of NoahJi's, is excited to begin distribution of the remarkable line of product manufactured by MacroSystem GmbH. The Retina Z3, with updated hardware features and astonishingly fast software, will soon be impressing the US market. In the current issue of The Amiga Magazine, Germany's largest, 10 different graphics boards were reviewed. The Z2 Retina was called "nearly legendary, " and in price/performance comparisons towered above the others. The only more impressive board in the tests was the new Retina Z3. Both products received glowing and strong recommendations. The Toccata 16 bit I/O board, which has been available in Germany for over 6 months, will now be available for the US market. The V-Lab Y/C 24 bit realtime video digitizer will also join the product mix of NoahJi's. An astounding new product that is currently in production and will be available here in July is the VLab Motion Card. This card is a Zorro II motion JPEG board for non-linear video editing and playback. The VLab Motion product contains a digitizer plus a video output device with YUV 4:2:2 square pixel quality and embedded hardware scaling and a genlock with chroma keying for real-time blue box effects as well as the compression/decompression JPEG chipset which runs at 29.5 Mhz peak frequency. The board has composite and Y/C inputs and outputs, and also features an expansion socket for add-ons like piggy packed YUV or RGB component transcoders, and an interface for outputting over NewTek's Video Toaster. The V-Lab Motion board does not require a time based corrector and can be combined with existing hard drives and controllers. VLab Motion also comes with MovieShop, a complete editing software package that features a hierarchical editor, B/W or color reference stamps, and a time line editor. Perfect interfacing with the Retina and the Toccata allow simultaneous recording and playback of audio and video. For more information contact: NoahJi's 3591 Nyland Lafayette, CO 80026 Phone: (303)499-1975 Fax: (303)499-1979 —-8<——-8<———8<——-8<———8<———8<————– Clip here David W. Martin c/o The OpCode Factory tm Seabrook, Texas USA Commodore might make the Amiga, but the Amiga makes it possible! PORTAL:davidm@cup.portal.com CIS:72510,3232 UUCP:davidm@cup.portal.com