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M/Motion? (Re: IBM InfoWindow)

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From: David S. Masterson
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 1991 23:37
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>>>>> On 18 Jan 91 01:27:23 GMT, jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge) said:

Jim> The successor to InfoWindow was a board called M/Motion.  It came out
Jim> several months after we (New Media Graphics) released our video overlay
Jim> card for PCs.  M/Motion is for MicroChannel, and costs around $2200.

Jim> We just upped the ante again with a $695 board for ISA bus machines that
Jim> includes video in a window AND audio, all onboard.  This new board has
Jim> 95% of the functionality of our VideoWindows board and IBM's M/Motion.
Jim> Basically only the special effects (wipes, dissolves, etc) were left out.

Jim> This board is designed on the PC Video chip that we designed with Chips
Jim> and Technologies.

Forgive me, but, coming from the Amiga world, I not real familiar with this
board or multimedia in the IBM arena, but my brother's been asking some
questions, so I thought I'd try to brush up.  Can you give me a rundown on the
types of applications where this board would be used and what capabilities it
would bring to those applications?
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From: cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson)
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Subject: M/Motion? (Re: IBM InfoWindow)
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