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- From: watters@cranel.com (David Watters)
- Subject: Re: >>>Amiga Power less than SGIs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.231015.17623@cranel.com>
- Organization: Cranel, Incorporated, Worthington Ohio
- References: <C1516L.Dr4@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1jiusmINN4sr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan21.113500.20077@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:10:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.113500.20077@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
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- >The board uses JPEG compression and decompression in real-time. A 1 Gig HD
- >(which is about $1500) will hold about 5-10 minutes of an animation. Few
- >animations require such long takes.
-
- Be careful about this. The board (and boards like this) have varying levels
- of compression which are couple to image quality.
- I will say though that this board looks very promising, and it sounds like it
- is going to edge out the Mac and IBM work alikes due to the Amiga's Zorro III
- bus speed and this boards ability to use smaller compressions and still achive
- 30fps. However, I have not eval'ed on yet.
- It also has a 32bit pixel bus that interfaces directly to their high speed
- render board (TI34020+multiple 34082's).
-
- David
- Watters
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