Pinnacle Systems Studio DC10plus announced

[David J. Szent-Gyorgyi]

It's a PCI card and software, at a U.S. list price of $230,
scheduled to be available at the end of October. It has ports
for input and output of composite video and S-video. If I read
the press release correctly, it does JPEG compression in
hardware. The press release states that it overcomes the 2 MB
limitation of Video for Windows.

Here's the press release -- copies from two sources:
http://secure.pinnaclesys.com/pr/pr.asp?ID=52
http://www.pathfinder.com/money/latest/press/BU/1998Oct05/1075.html

And here's the spec sheet:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/consumer/dc10plus/default.html

Here I am, trying to decide between the Iomega Buz and a
Pinnacle Systems DC30plus, and I bump into a press release
that's three days old!

I hope that the card uses the chips from Zoran and Brooktree
that Iomega uses in the Buz... such a device would be proven
hardware, at a commodity price... and (one hopes) with software
less badly broken than Iomega's.

Comments or information, anyone?

Dave
davesg at netaxs . com

[Jeffrey D. Hoffman]

Since we announced this new product on Friday, there has been a lot of
excitement and interest on our site based on orders and traffic analysis
from the weekend. I'll be interested in what our customers have to say
about it. Their reviews will be posted on our site as soon as we get
them.

Studio DC10 Plus ........................ $ 229.00
<http://www.sharbor.com/products/PINI5010001.html>

However, it looks like Pinnacle has another great solution for video
editing on their hands. Complete specifications available on our web
site, too!

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David J. Szent-Gyorgyi wrote:
> It's a PCI card and software, at a U.S. list price of $230,
> scheduled to be available at the end of October. It has ports
> for input and output of composite video and S-video. If I read
> the press release correctly, it does JPEG compression in
> hardware. The press release states that it overcomes the 2 MB
> limitation of Video for Windows.

> Comments or information, anyone?

[BuleriaChk]

Jeffrey wrote:

>Complete specifications available on our web
>site, too!
>

1. Is it in stock?
2. Will it output .avi for conversion to MPeg/importation into Premiere?

Chuck
Chuck Keyser
http://members.aol.com/BuleriaChk/private/flamenco.html

[Mike Iampietro]

The DC10plus is based on the same Zoran chipset used on our DC10, DRX
and DC20plus.

Mike Iampietro
Senior Product Manager
Pinnacle Systems Inc.

mi...@no.address

as a defense against spam I have deleted my reply to address
to reply please replace no.address with pinnaclesys.com

Studio 400 Web Forum: http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/~2/

David J. Szent-Gyorgyi wrote:

> It's a PCI card and software, at a U.S. list price of $230,
> scheduled to be available at the end of October. It has ports
> for input and output of composite video and S-video. If I read
> the press release correctly, it does JPEG compression in
> hardware. The press release states that it overcomes the 2 MB
> limitation of Video for Windows.
>

> Here's the press release -- copies from two sources:
> http://secure.pinnaclesys.com/pr/pr.asp?ID=52
> http://www.pathfinder.com/money/latest/press/BU/1998Oct05/1075.html
>
> And here's the spec sheet:
> http://www.pinnaclesys.com/consumer/dc10plus/default.html
>
> Here I am, trying to decide between the Iomega Buz and a
> Pinnacle Systems DC30plus, and I bump into a press release
> that's three days old!
>
> I hope that the card uses the chips from Zoran and Brooktree
> that Iomega uses in the Buz... such a device would be proven
> hardware, at a commodity price... and (one hopes) with software
> less badly broken than Iomega's.
>

> Comments or information, anyone?
>
> Dave
> davesg at netaxs . com

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[paulwRE...@voyager.co.nz]

I looked at the specs of this card and it looks good for the price.
One question is... How have they gotten around the 2Gig limits.
Stringing a series of AVIs to gether as they do with the DC30 + ?? or
a new version of Windows video?? or a new proprietary system. If the
later and running under Win 95/98 will we now be stuck with Win95/98
4 Gig file size limit? (I'm told that is the max file size under
Win95/98 , Ed pleaze correct me if I am wrong)

[Mike Iampietro]

It uses technology based on InstantVIDEO that plays back a sequence of files.

Mike Iampietro
Senior Product Manager
Pinnacle Systems Inc.

mi...@no.address

as a defense against spam I have deleted my reply to address
to reply please replace no.address with pinnaclesys.com

Studio 400 Web Forum: http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/~2/

paulwRE...@voyager.co.nz wrote:

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[Nicholas Yue]

David J. Szent-Gyorgyi wrote:
>
> It's a PCI card and software, at a U.S. list price of $230,
> scheduled to be available at the end of October. It has ports
> for input and output of composite video and S-video. If I read
> the press release correctly, it does JPEG compression in
> hardware. The press release states that it overcomes the 2 MB
> limitation of Video for Windows.

As an improvement over the DC10, why is it not possible to use it under
WindowsNT ? Are the drivers between Win98 and WinNT very different ? Or
is the architecture of WinNT complicate such that making the port not
profitable ? Is it a marketing or technical difficulty ?

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