Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!alias!imax!dave
From: dave@imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Re: Need info on Video Digitizers (Video ->PC)
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.231605.9986@imax.com>
Keywords: Camcorder -> PC
Organization: Imax Systems Corporation, Oakville Canada
References: <6706@drutx.ATT.COM> <3537@ryn.esg.dec.com> <50103@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 90 23:16:05 GMT

In article <50103@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v134kkut@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>Also, someone asked why anyone in his right mind would do single frame
>animation on a 3/4" deck rather than a video disk player.  I REFUSE to believe
>that a videodisk player with 100 hours of disks costs less than a JVC 50850(?)
>with 100 hours worth of tapes.

Remember to include the costs of repairing the 3/4 inch deck each time
it breaks down.  100 hours of single-frame recording is about 11 million
tape start-record-stop-backspace-stop cycles.