Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watcgl!dmmartindale 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 Article-I.D.: watcgl.2309 Posted: Tue Aug 6 11:34:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 23:30:49 EDT References: <239@weitek.UUCP> <6700024@datacube.UUCP> <4868@mit-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9 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.