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From: stone@nbc1.UUCP (Anthony Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: UNIX video products, a summary
Keywords: Abekas disk recorder description
Message-ID: <657@nbc1.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 15:27:39 GMT
References: <12700@shamash.cdc.com>
Reply-To: stone@nbc1.ge.com (Anthony Stone)
Organization: NBC Computer Imaging, New York
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In article <12700@shamash.cdc.com> Tom Ciaccio writes:
>
>A couple weeks ago I posted a request to the net for information on
>products that support video input/output on UNIX workstations.  Here
>is a summary of the information I received:
>
>- A company called Abekus apparently has a video product, no further
>information available.
>
We have several Abekas devices at NBC and are very satisfied customers.
The Abekas A6x series machines store up to 100 seconds of NTSC/PAL video on
SCSI disks. You can download images into an A60 via ethernet (or as component
or composite analog or digital video) and play them back at 30 fps. It's an
essential tool for rendering, where you can't generate the images as fast as
you want to play them back. You can also control the A60 via ethernet. It
speaks TCP/IP (telnet/ftp/rlogin/rcp) and someone has even written a SunView
interface to control it. Abekas has a uucp connection (pyramid!abekas), but
does not receive USENET. They usually exhibit at SIGGRAPH and were at
USENIX last summer, too.
-- 
Anthony Stone			NBC Computer Imaging, New York, NY
stone@nbc1.ge.com		212-664-2206