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From: emartine@digi.lonestar.org (Edgar Martinez Martinez)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Animating images on PC's and Workstations
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.214123.16407@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:41:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun10.185556.10123@news.nd.edu> <1991Jun12.073358.12295@intacc.uucp>
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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In article <1991Jun12.073358.12295@intacc.uucp> mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) writes:
>
>I think the possibilities are quite incredible.  Certainly there are
>systems available which can do this (the Quantel Harry for instance) but
>they are in the six-figure range right now.  I guess I first started to
>realize the kind of things you could do almost ten years ago, and I've
>been waiting for a product ever since :-) I'm hoping to be able to bust
>my piggy bank and get one as soon as there's something available.  Nope,
>it doesn't seem to be here quite yet, but give it another year.  Unless
>(hoping) someone knows something I don't...
>
>>John Kellow >kellow@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu
>

In the June issue of PC Sources, there is a small article (page 57) that talks
about a new board that compresses and lets you play video at 30 frames per
second, and all in a 386 PC with a 1 Meg video card. It compresses images
by almost 98 percent! The board and software cost 10,000 dollars.


Edgar Martinez                UTArlington Co-op program (Great!)
emartine@digi.lonestar.org    DSC Communications Corp.  Plano, TX
b645zju@utarlg.utarl.edu      University of Texas at Arlington

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