[geeks] octane personal video

[Kevin]

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I'm trying to find a reason to spend more money.  You're not
helping :)

Seriously, i haven't used my PVR since i got out of 3D work,
almost 5 years ago.  I'm trying to get back into it, just to
have something to do in my downtime, hobby type of thing.  I
really liked my PVR and never had any complaints with it as
far as quality was concerned but the only way i can use it
is to install WinNT or Win2K.  I don't want ANY Win32 stuff in
my home.  I detest it more than most people who say they do. 
I have an old dual PPro that i may, reluctantly, setup NT 4.0
on and SpeedRazor.  I guess it wouldn't be so bad if i only
used it for video in and out, but if i could replace the PVR
with the Octane i wouldn't have to worry about it.  Still it's
at $550 now, kinda pricey.

If only there were linux drivers for the PVR. 

Thanks,
/KRM

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:40:37 -0500
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:09:43PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
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> > Do you believe that given a fast enough array that this
> > device will offer superior output than that of my DPS PVR?
> 
> Well...  First, if you don't give the Octane a fast enough
> array, it will be real crap.
> 
> Now then, I think that the Octane PVO might be roughly on
> PAR [0] with the DPS PVR.  I trust the Octane PVO to have
> the advertised quality.  I don't usually trust video
> hardware to do that until I've seen it.  I've seen the PVR
> in action, but it was a long time ago, and all it did was
> output animation to tape or output the animation into a
> Video Flyer. And I knew a lot less then.
> 
> I'd be inclined to say that the PVR is probably good enough
> for capturing and laying video out to tape.  The PVO will do
> a lot that the PVR won't, but only if you buy software for
> the octane other than what comes with the OS and PVO.  So,
> if you are happy with PVRs quality, just keep using it, and
> copy stuff over the network to/from the Octane.  But, it is
> really hard to say without know anything more specifically
> about what you are trying to do.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
> 
> [0] Bad pun, I know.  So shoot me.
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