just installed it in a friends jeep...other than the obvious advantage of being several HUNDRED dollars cheaper than the kenwood..it doesn't really have a down side..
two things that may bother you:
1. whenever you touch it.. ie, press any button, the blue lights on the display blink several times...its kind of fruity, but if it bothers you that much, i bet it only requires minimal hacking to disable it..
2. limit of 8 characters per filename, not sure if the kenwood has this limitation... it doesn't bother me, considering i can name folders by album, files by song, and the when i scan through the titles it displays folder - songname.mp3...
hope this is helpfull..
def7
We got ours several months ago, I am very happy with it.
A quick run down of the system I use: p3 500 512 ram tnt2 V770 VIDEO CARD Video Toaster for in/out
We went with the Video Toaster NT for one main reason... Uncompressed NTSC for CHEAP!!!
The card is packaged with Speed Razor SE(non-linear editor, its capable, but for real-time i would suggest its big brother, Speed Razor RT), Newtek's AURA which is a really handy video paint/compositing/photoshop kind of app that is EXCELLENT..Newtek's LIGHTWAVE VT..(its a stripped down version of the excellent Lightwave 3d which is used on Voyager, Starship Troopers, and a ton of others..this version of the software is adequate for most needs, especially if you are new to 3d, but we have the full blown Lightwave runnin on our machines because we need the advanced features..The VT package also comes with a few other handy apps..
One of the main selling points about the VT is that its completely software based...not like the old Amiga Flyers, which were dependent on propriety hardware..This system depends 100% on software operations, so if you decide to do some more advanced stuff later on, just upgrade your system processor, you'll be good to go.. I might add that our p3 500 handles all of the applications quite well.
One other consideration: The (REALLY DAMN HIGH QUALITY) uncompressed video that the VT captures and spits out takes up hefty chunks of disk space..To even capture vidoe your drives need to write 21megs a sec SUSTAINED! WE accomplish this through a cheap ($99) PROMISE FastTrak RAID Controller..four 20 gig ATA66 drives get put though that...it turns out to be damned cheap and gives you tons of space with a storage solution that can sustain 23megs-a-sec..
So anyway, I'm very happy with what we got for a kickass price(Remember, Uncompressed 720x480 30fps!)
any other question s lemme know, i'd be glad to anwer any
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just installed it in a friends jeep...other than the obvious advantage of being several HUNDRED dollars cheaper than the kenwood..it doesn't really have a down side.. two things that may bother you: 1. whenever you touch it.. ie, press any button, the blue lights on the display blink several times...its kind of fruity, but if it bothers you that much, i bet it only requires minimal hacking to disable it.. 2. limit of 8 characters per filename, not sure if the kenwood has this limitation... it doesn't bother me, considering i can name folders by album, files by song, and the when i scan through the titles it displays folder - songname.mp3 ...
hope this is helpfull..
def7
Though I wonder, How much influence does the advisory commitee actually have?
We got ours several months ago, I am very happy with it.
A quick run down of the system I use:
p3 500
512 ram
tnt2 V770 VIDEO CARD
Video Toaster for in/out
We went with the Video Toaster NT for one main reason... Uncompressed NTSC for CHEAP!!!
The card is packaged with Speed Razor SE(non-linear editor, its capable, but for real-time i would suggest its big brother, Speed Razor RT), Newtek's AURA which is a really handy video paint/compositing/photoshop kind of app that is EXCELLENT..Newtek's LIGHTWAVE VT..(its a stripped down version of the excellent Lightwave 3d which is used on Voyager, Starship Troopers, and a ton of others..this version of the software is adequate for most needs, especially if you are new to 3d, but we have the full blown Lightwave runnin on our machines because we need the advanced features..The VT package also comes with a few other handy apps..
One of the main selling points about the VT is that its completely software based...not like the old Amiga Flyers, which were dependent on propriety hardware..This system depends 100% on software operations, so if you decide to do some more advanced stuff later on, just upgrade your system processor, you'll be good to go.. I might add that our p3 500 handles all of the applications quite well.
One other consideration:
The (REALLY DAMN HIGH QUALITY) uncompressed video that the VT captures and spits out takes up hefty chunks of disk space..To even capture vidoe your drives need to write 21megs a sec SUSTAINED! WE accomplish this through a cheap ($99) PROMISE FastTrak RAID Controller..four 20 gig ATA66 drives get put though that...it turns out to be damned cheap and gives you tons of space with a storage solution that can sustain 23megs-a-sec..
So anyway, I'm very happy with what we got for a kickass price(Remember, Uncompressed 720x480 30fps!)
any other question s lemme know, i'd be glad to anwer any
The bastards at cablevision went ahead and wired all of NY state, but didn't bother with Bergen County nj 25 minutes outside of nyc.......