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From: mjkobb@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: RasterOps Video Colorboard 364
Summary: Has anybody seen it????
Keywords: RasterOps video NuBus card
Message-ID: <2335@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 4 May 90 09:08:57 GMT
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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Greetings,

  I just got the new MacWorld, and I was intrigued by the ad for the new
RasterOps Video Colorboard 364.  It claims to do live video on the Mac screen
seamlessly with other apps, and be a (I think) 24-bit video board as well.  It
can apparently do 24-bit frame-grabs from the video source, which can be NTSC
or S-Video.

  SO, anybody seen it?  Played with it?  What's the speed of the frame-grab?
How's the video quality?  Can the video be scaled?  How fast are the rest of
the graphics?  If they're slow, can they be sped up?  How many inputs does it
have?

  I've used MassMicrosystems ColorSpace boards, and they're the best I've seen
so far, but for the type of functionality that RasterOps seems to be claiming,
you need two boards and a lot of money.  The RO is one board for <$2000.

--Mike