Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cimshop!davidm From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: M/Motion? (Re: IBM InfoWindow) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 23:37:46 GMT References: <1991Jan17.150619.6272@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <428@newmedia.UUCP> Sender: davidm@cimshop.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Consilium Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jim@newmedia.UUCP's message of 18 Jan 91 01:27:23 GMT X-Posting-Software: GNUS 3.12 [ NNTP-based News Reader for GNU Emacs ] >>>>> On 18 Jan 91 01:27:23 GMT, jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge) said: Jim> The successor to InfoWindow was a board called M/Motion. It came out Jim> several months after we (New Media Graphics) released our video overlay Jim> card for PCs. M/Motion is for MicroChannel, and costs around $2200. Jim> We just upped the ante again with a $695 board for ISA bus machines that Jim> includes video in a window AND audio, all onboard. This new board has Jim> 95% of the functionality of our VideoWindows board and IBM's M/Motion. Jim> Basically only the special effects (wipes, dissolves, etc) were left out. Jim> This board is designed on the PC Video chip that we designed with Chips Jim> and Technologies. Forgive me, but, coming from the Amiga world, I not real familiar with this board or multimedia in the IBM arena, but my brother's been asking some questions, so I thought I'd try to brush up. Can you give me a rundown on the types of applications where this board would be used and what capabilities it would bring to those applications? -- ==================================================================== David Masterson Consilium, Inc. (415) 691-6311 640 Clyde Ct. uunet!cimshop!davidm Mtn. View, CA 94043 ==================================================================== "If someone thinks they know what I said, then I didn't say it!"