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From: ggibeau@ucqais.uc.edu (George Gibeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video Products
Message-ID: <1412@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 88 23:27:50 GMT
References: <4834@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <8379@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
Lines: 32
Keywords: desktop video reviews perfect vision
Summary: perfect vision lives, but with problems.

In article <8379@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, doug@eris (Doug Merritt) writes:
> In article <4834@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> martin@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Bruce Martin) writes:
> >Has anybody had any experience with Perfect Vision?  Is it vaporware?
> >How does it compare in picture quality to DigiView?  Is there any loss
> >of quality using a color camera instead of a black and white one?  Is
> >it compatible with an amiga 1000?
> 
> It's not vaporware...I've seen it on the shelf at HT Electronics.
>

     It does indeed exist.  A friend of mine purchased it for their
lab, but had some initial problems.  It only seemed to work with
one very old camera.  They tried multiple cameras, including a brand
new TTY (?) from Hitachi.  After trying to no avail, the unit was
send back to the factory to be looked at.  It returned with a brief
note:  Try a shorter cable.  Sure as heck, it worked perfectly
when the cable was shortened from about 6 feet to about 1 foot.
 
Problem number 2--- ******* it will NOT work with an 020 chip
installed in a 1000.  Upon yanking the 020 chip out of the 1000,
it worked fine.  Also, the same unit worked perfectly on a 2000
(again with no 020 chip).  It does loose a little in crispness
of image, but it is a heck of a lot faster and not subject to
movement (as DigiView is).

George Gibeau
 
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