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From: dave@tygra.ddmi.com (David Conrad)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Next machine as animation platform
Message-ID: <504@tygra.ddmi.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 06:56:36 GMT
References: <85866@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1990Nov13.043825.9515@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: dave@tygra.UUCP (David Conrad)
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In article <1990Nov13.043825.9515@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> topix@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes:
>In article <85866@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mark@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Jansen) writes:
) 
))	I recently got information in the mail about Steven Job's new
))color Next Machine.  You buy his Next Cube with a 32bit graphics board
))that evidently can grab video, compress it in real time and then play
))back video in real time from these compressed files...
) 
)Although I'm not sure how the images are compressed, I would be quite amazed
)if they could play back in broadcast quality.  An Abekas is specialized to
)do just that.  I would expect that a Next is too general (so to speak) a 
)platform to handle high quality real time playback...
)

Guess again.  NeXT claims thirty frames per second with the dedicated
compressor/decompressor co-processor.  Read the article in the latest
issue of Byte.
--
David R. Conrad
dave@tygra.ddmi.com

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