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From: Michael van Elst
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:35

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In <1jiusmINN4sr@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown) writes:
>> This board allows you to play back 24bit animations in
>>high resolution at real time(30fps) for recording.

>Oh, of course. Just need a few thou $$ for a CD-worm drive , or a 1-gig
>hard drive :-)

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.

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Michael van Elst
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