Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:31:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Weldon <rjw@clark.net> To: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor Capture Card Driver Announcement Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950821105933.23859C-100000@clark.net> In-Reply-To: <199508211451.JAA19802@plains.nodak.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Mark Tinguely wrote: > ************* > Announcing the Matrox Meteor Video Capture Driver. > ************* > > The Meteor is a reasonably priced capture card for PCI (*see warning below) > bus computers. The Meteor is sold directly from Matrox** at: > > Canada and USA > 514-685-2630 or 1-800-361-4903 (voice) > 514-685-2853 (fax) I just got off of the phone with them. They don't sell direct to the consumer. At least not in the US. If you call them they will tell you where to find the card in your area though. The MSRP for the card is $495 Another thing is that chances are you are going to be dealing with a reseller, and they may or may not take a Visa etc... The reseller I talked to only wants a certified check. Anyone know of anything easier. Of course he also want full MSRP of 495. Yuck! According to him Matrox doesn't do volume sales on this card and they avoid end-user call's like the black plague. Although they were quick to point me at a local reseller. If they get a flood of calls it will be interesting. What is a recommended capture camera for this card? They recommended a camera with SVHS output. Anyone have a recommendation? > * Warning: the Meteor does not work with all PCI chipsets. A MERCURY chipset > wise to use a "SATURN" or "TRITON" chipset motherboard and also limit the > number of PCI bus-mastering devices on that bus. We had difficulties getting > the Meteor capture card to work with systems that also use the NCR PCI SCSI > boards. It is also wise to have 16 or more Megabytes of RAM in the computer. Will this card work with the Supermicro motherboard (P90)? I don't currently have any bus mastering cards in the PCI slots. Rick Weldon
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