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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LIVE! digitizer
Message-ID: <5660050@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 89 23:59:21 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>> I had a LIVE.  In my opinion it is worthless.
>> 	Charles Brown	charles@cv.hp.com or charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
> 
> It largely depends on what you want it to do and what version of the 
> software you have.

When it worked extremely poorly I called the company.  They quickly
sent me a new release of the software.  It also worked very poorly.

> Given a stable image and good lighting they
> produce pictures almost as good as the very early digi-view stuff.

I was using a camera designed for broadcast.  It has very high
resolution and is used by TV stations.  The image was completely
still.  I also used it with a professional VCR.  The LIVE was
incapable of syncing.

> I have
> very little problem with guruing, but keep in mind that the live! software
> is a process control program and must disable intuition interrupts, etc.
> | James Gary   jgary@ms.uky.edu

I was not running any other software.  I stand by my criticism of
LIVE.  It failed more often than it succeeded.
--
	Charles Brown	charles@cv.hp.com or charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
			or hplabs!hpcvca!charles or "Hey you!"
	Not representing my employer.
	"The guy sure looks like plant food to me." Little Shop of Horrors