Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!stevel From: stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Ludtke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: LIVE (a satisfied customer) Message-ID: <9102@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 14 Jan 89 01:35:18 GMT References: <6599@louie.udel.EDU> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Steve Ludtke) Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 43 In article <6599@louie.udel.EDU> mcohen@nrtc.northrop.com (Marty Cohen) writes: >> From: Charles Brown >> Subject: Re: Which digitizer should I buy? > >> I bought a LIVE! for a discount from a store which was moving. Since >> I did not own a VCR or camera, I decided to hook it to the camera and ... >> My Amiga was a totally stock (except for the PAL grounding >> modification) Amiga1000 with 512K RAM and one external 3.5 inch >> floppy. (I also tried it without the extra floppy.) Their hardware >> was poor. Their software just did not work. I will NEVER buy >> anything from them again. > >My experience was the opposite - LIVE works fine for me. >My configuration is a Amiga 1000 with 1.5 meg (Insider), >CLtd SCSI controller (with passthrough), and LIVE. An Olympus 8mm >camcorder's video out connects to LIVE. Both tapes and live action >record fine. I usually pause the tapes, and jitter is >>>not<<< >a problem. For live action, the subjects cannot be moving too fast. > >I find that gray scale works better than color. I have >>>never<<< >had any problems saving images. Perhaps 512K is not enough memory. ... I have had a Live for a little over a year now. I have a stock A1000 with a 2 meg expansion, no pass thru so I use it with 512k. I have had absolutely no problems with it, I found a couple of minor (very minor) bugs and the company immediately sent me an updated sofware version at no charge. I use it with 2 different JVC vcr's a HRS10-U and a HR-D120U. I can almost always get a jitter free still frame (this suprised me, since the still frame function of both VCR's is not that good), and moving objects work fine as long as they're not moving too fast. In fact I even put a partially descrambled sattelite signal into it that my TV couldn't even sync to, and it displayed it better than the TV. Nor have I ever had any problems with saving pictures or animations. Overall, an excellent product. I'd hate to see Live get a bad rep just from one bad incident... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Ludtke stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu ..!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!stevel stevel@citiago (Bitnet) OBS949 (Amer PPl lnk) 72335,1537 (Compuserve) XJM16487 (Genie)