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In a previous article, perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) wrote:
>Does anybody uses it?
>Any recomendations?suggestions?
>Thax.
>--
>Oleg Perelet
>perelet@wri.com

I've used the PC-VCR quite a bit.  I thought it was a great VCR unto itself, 
and the computer interface worked well.  I didn't like the PC software much.  
The Mac SW was really just an interface, but if you worked at it, you could 
get it to do anything.  I wrote some controlling SW in MM Director, and got it 
to do just about everything.

Unfortunately, NEC was hoping to sell plenty more than they did, and have 
stopped selling it.  Last year's MacWorld had a huge display for the PC-VCR.  
Didn't see a one this year.

I think NEC just didn't know how to market the thing.  For most of the life of 
the VCR, they sold it only through their pro-video dealers (large projection 
screens, etc).  They didn't know the computer end of it.  Then they brought it 
into the computer channel through mfg reps, which wasn't too bad.  But they 
didn't give it much of a chance.

Bottom line - too bad its gone.  If I saw one at a good price, I'd buy one in 
a minute.  I think panasonic has a similar model, but its not frame accurate.  
Sony has a similar Hi-8 model, but I don't know much about it.

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