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Re: Because ppl seem to like pricey stuff (was: Re: NeXTdimension -- Why so pricey?) (long)

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From: Brian Willoughby
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 06:59
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J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes
| The way I see it is that the board:
| 
| * has no close-captioning/titling capability (I've only heard about
|   this being promised, I don't recall reading about this in the
|   original or revised ad sheets NeXT sent).  Until I hear hard
|   evidence that this was officially promised with this board, I
|   won't take any money off for it's absence.

Food for thought:

Type "titles over video" in Librarian, click Search (with the General Reference  
selected), and read the paragraph found in NXLiveVideoView()

"In this mode, the NXLiveVideoView can also draw over the video; this is  
useful, for example, to place titles over video."

Of course, if you continue reading carefully, you'll notice that it can't  
really do anything useful - but I already know of one individual who considered  
purchasing NeXTdimension systems for broadcast use after reading this very  
document (which hasn't really changed between 2.1 and 3.0) until I pointed out  
the fine print (I own a NeXTdimension).

| -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
| -- NeXTmail ok
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Signal Processing Software and Consulting
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