On Sun, 18 May 2008 00:34:30 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 07:07:51PM -0500, Michael Graves wrote: >> I work in the broadcast and TV production business. Some time ago a >> major company called Quantel created a hardware system called "Edit >> Box." It was wickedly fast and could do things with multiple streams of >> uncompressed video in real-time. It was way beyond PCs, Macs or *nix >> boxes of the day. It started at $500,000 USD for four streams. > >... and now I can do that on a Mac laptop. > >Aren't you glad *you* didn't have to write that check? :-)
That tale harkens from around 1997. Even at $750,000 the owners of the facility made a lot of money with the system. Big investment often comes with big returns. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
