NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/video/producti/2055

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From: [e-mail] (Greg Penetrante)
Subject: Re: Vivid-24 and SGI
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 29 Dec 92 09:28:27 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Neal Wickham) writes:


>PS

>...for $200,000 you could probably buy 50 or so Amigas with Vivid boards!


   ...  But the SGI would still be BETTER!

   In terms of REAL-WORLD mentality where price/performance isn't necessarily
  a factor in getting CLIENTS and BUSINESS.  A few firms here in San Diego
  do tons of business with their SGI's; whereas another local Amiga firm aches
  by with a few clients a month... and has to rent out its video editing and
  hardware to make up the difference.
   Not to mention: SGI will STILL BE MORE EFFICIENT at generating images! Once
  again, in a REAL-WORLD business climate, you are looking for maximum
  turnaround for dollars spent.  Agreed, that a Vivid-24 system will cost way
  less, a user would still have to WAIT until final images are finally rendered
  and dumped to tape.  Maybe such a system could do, perhaps a few seconds of
  images PER HOUR; On the other hand, a fully loaded SGI can dump MINUTES of
  final images to tape, thereby being MORE EFFICIENT, and generating MORE
  DOLLARS per hour spent.

  And that, folks, is all that counts.

  :-)  :-)


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