G'day Keith,

Thursday October 24 1996 20:19, Keith Richardson wrote to Brenton
Vettoretti:

 KR> well i overcame my prejudices and fronted up at harris technology
 KR> plastic in hand. surprisingly they didn't charge the full rrp,
"only"
 KR> $415.
 KR>
 KR> well the box works well, i have only had a small play with it so far,
 KR> but a hi-8 - snappy - laptop combo seems a winner. you can choose the
 KR> quality depending on the input, the best is still scene live from
 KR> camera. i think that they average over several frames, then live from
 KR> camera, lastly live action from tape. in the last case, it actually
 KR> digitises from a single frame, unlike some other solutions that i have
 KR> seen. it is very simple to set up, just plug it into the parallel
 KR> port, and load the software from cdrom - about 5 min. it takes about
 KR> 20 sec to acquire a picture.
 KR>
 KR> the sdk is included, there is an ocx (it is rather large - over 1meg)
 KR> which should make vb, vc++ or delphi a breeze to use, and some .pdf
 KR> files explaining the interface either by ocx or com interface.

What a bloody mess of acronyms!!!!  Speaka da English....


Cheers,
Gaelyne

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