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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH '85 review(chatty)
Message-ID: <2309@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:34:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  6 11:34:44 1985
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Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

Someone suggested that write-once video disks would replace the Sony
single-frame 1 inch VTR.  Not yet, at least not in some applications.
The Sony writes standard, broadcast-quality video onto tape.  The Abekas
stores frames and then plays them back in real time for recording on an
ordinary VTR;  I don't know if the Abekas is broadcast-quality but there
certainly are framestores that are.

The write-once video disks are NOT broadcast quality.  Better than half-inch
VTRs probably, but not good enough for commercial video production.