Q. What video recording equipment has been used by various AVS users?

A: The following are edited excerpts of messages posted to comp.graphics.avs. Notice, prices and phone numbers may be outdated:

[lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com]: We have just been through this exercise. If the IBM RS/6000 provides an NTSC RGB output, in contrast to the circa 75 KHz RGB to the monitor, you can try any of several boxes that produce composite video from RGB at NTSC rates. Typically this only handles the upper left corner of the monitor's view. The box we acquired from FSR Inc. didn't work because our Sync is on Green and their box can't cope with that.

If you want a proper conversion of the entire screen, as we would, I'd suggest any of a number of conversion boxes in the $12,000 to $20,000 range. We are requesting a Folsom converter and are dealing with Wayne G. Dengel at Qutron, Phone - 941-266-8000, Address - 4740 Old Stone Road, Sarasota Fl 34233. Our colleagues in the UK are using a Folsom on an SGI machine.

[schiano@uci.edu]: You might also want to look at the Lyon-Lamb RTC scan converter. It's list price is a bit higher ($25K) but it allows a lot of capabilities the others don't have: pan ans scroll to any area of the screen, zooming, and a typically higher quality image through better anti-aliasing than most scan converters. We've been using one for a year and a half with very good results.

[cohen@quartz.ciw.edu]: We also have been happy with the Lyon-Lamb RTC. We also have a Lyon-Lamb Minivas for controlling Panasonic AG-7750 VTR's for frame-by-frame recording.

[yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu]: We are using the Chromatek 9120, with similar capabilities to the Lyon Lamb at a similar price. We bought it from Qutron (see phone above).

[lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com]: The new Folsom will have a "window" and a "knob" on the front, which allows most, if not all, of the region-of-interest selection, zooming, etc. In that we don't have one yet, I can't speak of the anti-aliasing.