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- From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Vivid 24 graphics card
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 04:08:19 -0500
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- dkennedy@nyx.cs.du.edu (Don Kennedy) writes:
-
- >My interest in the Vivid 24 is derived in what it COULD do for the buck.
- >Like most American concepts, the high end users are sold on high-concept
- >items like Mac, SGI, etc. where sales gimmicry means as much OR MORE than
- >the actual functionality of the system. Vivid 24 represents a GREAT
- >potential product as far as cost effectiveness is concerned.
-
- For me, the impressiveness of this card is in its ability to output
- both PAL and NTSC video, and in the price which seems to start
- around $2K and go as high as $6K.
-
- I am also drooling over the program memroy onboard and wonder if
- DMI is going to release a cross compiler and development system for
- it. This card is a Toaster Killer, if not an SGI killer. The
- comparisons to SGI were probably there more to show the way prices
- of popular graphics engines go into the tens of thousands very
- easily.
-
- I would rather develop an Amiga 4000 with the DMI board than an
- IRIX system, anyway. And this card offers the promise of video
- utilities that can run in either NTSC or PAL environments, and
- reletively high speed graphics rendering at 24-bits.
-
- Think about the possibilities of a $10 - $12 thousand Amiga system
- that can compete toe-to-toe with Mac and Pee Sea systems at the
- same price and WHIP THEM in terms of functionability and quality of
- software. In this sense, the Vivid offers more promise than the
- Toaster ever will.
-
- (Please excuse my ramblings ...)
-
- Stratocaster
-
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