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Posted by Rgr on 12/25/75 11:30
blackburst@aol.com wrote:
> Rôgêr wrote:
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>>Okay, sorry for reposting, but I waited over a day. Surely some pro out
>>there has an idea for a good text crawler, but one that's flexible. This
>>isn't for an CBS sized operation, but a pretty good sized cable
>>operation for local/regional use. Any suggestions appreciated.
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> Are you talking about a production CG (keyed over video) or a
> bulletin-board CG?
Keyed over video
> For production CGs, other posters mentioned Inscriber or Compix,
> currently made.
They're already using some cheapie, which since it probably cost several
hundred dollars they think it's high-end, just a little limited. It's a
Display Systems International or DSI.
> You can get lots of older cheapies: Quanta Microgen,
> Quanta Q-5 and others. Or some rinky-dink Amiga-Commodore setup. Or
> even the super cheap Videonics units.
They're wanting to upgrade. We've got a Videonics somewhere in a box in
a closet.
> For bulletin boards, Scala was mentioned. There are also old
> TexScan/CompuVids that can do "regions", including crawls.
We use Powerpoint for our bulletin boards, they're using something awful
that came with their Soloist MPEG Video Server. When I say we, we is a
company that has a leased channel on their cable system.
> If you're interested, we have an old Chyron that will do a bug and
> crawl, but we want 20k for it.
20k? Thanks, we'll mull it over.
Actually I do appreciate the input, we've been running another leased
station on another cable system for several years that is still 50-75%
analog and have gotten pretty good at it. This cable system is trying to
be all digital, but they may not understand all the implications
sometimes. I know I don't, and they come to me to ask questions.
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