jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg) (04/25/91)
In support of a project we are beginning, we are in the market for some high-end graphics and imaging support for a PC (-compatible, actually a Compaq 486). I would appreciate recommendations from people about hardware support for the following requirements. It is not essential that all of these capabilities be satisfied by one product (fat chance, anyway) -- we'll buy as many boards as we need. By the way, price is (almost) no object for this exercise. Here's our requirements: - support for screen size of about 1,000 x 1,000 pixels - at least 8-bit color (24 bit desirable) - excellent font support (we don't need lots of fonts, but we need a catalog of several good-looking fonts; arbitrarily scalable fonts desirable) - ability to store several different screens on board (known as "multiple planes", I believe) - fast, high-level geometric graphics operations - JPEG image compression/decompression support (images up to about 512 x 512; must be able to decompress such an image in under 1 second [is this possible?]) - MPEG full-motion video support (yeah, I know this ain't available yet, but we're going to need it eventually) - Desirable: special effects (wipes, disintegrating images, fade ins, etc.) I appreciate any suggestion you have, even if your recommendations only cover part of the requirements. By the way, we are familiar with the Matrox line of boards. Also, please e-mail to me (jxr@thumper.bellcore.com) as I don't normally read any of these newsgroups. Thanks. Jonathan Rosenberg Manager, Information Networks Research Bellcore