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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (51968)	4/5/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: sheila rothstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

Hi Philip and everyone else, that article verifies the fact that IOM has great products BUT can the CO. make $$$ on these wonderful products. The key is to get the most brilliant business head they can find to put us in the black. Therein lies the challenge and we will find out at the annual meeting and conference call the forth coming plans. I wish I could go but unfortunately I can't miss 2 working days. I look forward to hearing all about it from those who do go. I got my clock adjusted forward, thanks to all who ans'd. SR

To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (51968)	4/5/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: Gmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

PC Computing reviewed Buz in their May Issue and came to a totally different conclusion than PC Magazine. They gave a glowing review and 5 stars their highest rating. Here is an excerpt of the review. >>>>You want to do Titanic-quality video editing on your system,but you're on a home-movie budget. Most low-cost video capture devices are easy enough to use, but lack the power to deliver truly dazzling clips. Iomega's Buz Multimedia Producer breaks the external video-capture mold, producing higher-resolution video at a rock-bottom price. Quick Cuts What sets the Iomega Buz apart from most devices, besides its very low cost, is its included Ultra SCSI controller. In fact you can get cost of a good SCSI card, so if you're shopping for SCSI it's quite a bargain. With internal and external connectors, the Buz SCSI setup works great with Iomega's speedy SCSI based Jaz and Zip drives. Iomega has even done some tweaking to make transferring video directly to a Jaz drive as fast as or even faster than transferring to a regular hard drive. Despite the minor surgery necessary to install the SCSI card, the Buz is easy to set up and comes with a video and CD to walk you through the steps. The card plugs into a PCI slot, and the Buz breakout box plugs into the card's external connector. The box itself has composite, stereo audio, and S-Video in and out connectors. Most similar video-capture products use hardware MPEG compression, which is limited to 352-by-240-pixel resolution. The Buz uses a more sophisticated Zoran chip that digitizes at up to 720 by 480 pixels, closer to broadcast quality than anything else in its price range. It also uses M-JPEG, a more efficient and easier-to-edit format than MPEG. You can't easily play M-JPEG without the Buz, but you can save files to AVI, QuickTime, or MPEG. Special Effects When it comes to software, the Buz bundle emphasizes usability over everything else. It includes an enhanced version of MGI'sVideoWave, which is one of the friendliest video-editing products on the market. While it lacks advanced features, it covers most of the basics to let you capture video, enhance its image quality, edit sequences together with transitions, add fly-in text, and mix and edit audio. MGI includes a how-to video on the CD that clearly explains all the features. Iomega gives you another intuitive product, PictureWorks HotShots, for still images. It asks you under what conditions the pictue was taken and how it was digitized, and then does automatic corrections that work remarkably well.It includes the usual image editing tools and special-effects features, and lets you experiment to see what works best.You also get lomega's RecordIt software for recording MPEG-2 audio through the Buz directly from a music CD, and a limited-use version of PictureWorks' Netcard, which lets you send six multimedia postcards across the Internet. There are a few computer systems that don't play well with the Buz (they're clearly marked on the box), and there are conflicts with video display cards that are more than a few years old, but overall the Buz works well with a wide variety of systems and hardware configurations. If you're doing video duplication or complex business presentations, you might prefer a more expensive internal capture card. But the comination of low cost and extreme ease of use makes the Buz an excellent choice for those who want to dabble in decent quality video on their computer without investing a lot of time or money. <<<<< GARY