Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: NEC PC-VCR
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.131610.7432@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 90 13:16:10 GMT
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My understanding after talking to a local NEC person is that it is NOT
designed for single frame recording. 

Looking at it I personally don't think it it tough enough to handle
that task on say an animation with 10000 frames. 

If anyone can get an NEC spokesperson to say differently I think
we would all be interested!

I asw the unit at a couple of trade shows and it does pretty good as
a prototype multimedia output device. Its a little slow for an
actual finished product if the access methods are true hypermedia since
long searches take way more time than the .1-1 second of a laser disk.

Interesting note is that locally we can make a test laser disk for $380CDN
with 24hour turnaround, drops to 320 for 7 day! This makes it reasonable to
actually prototype an application.

tj