"We know Diamond explains it is making a player, but we understand it to be a recorder. I think it's well established, under international copyright law, that the reproduction that occurs inside the Rio constitutes a recording."
- Some clown from the RIAA
The "reproduction" above referring to transferring mp3's onto the mp3 player or whatever tortured logic they're trying to use there
I know there are way worse and way more evil :porky-happy: that have caused the world infinitely more tangible harm out there but I hate these copyright ghouls so, so much
Diamond voodoo was the nvidea rtx of its day. When 3dfx came out it was a big deal.
3Dfx Voodoos in SLI mode were the first setup that could do 1280x1024 fully-textured 3D at home at 30 fps+.
At the time commercial solutions for 3D like SGI cost 10x the price in desktop form - SGI and other workstation companies were absolutely furious. SGI's last attempt at a low-end desktop 3D workstation was in 1996 when the Voodoo launched. Then slowly each product cycle they lost more and more market share to much cheaper PC workstations. Within 10 years they stopped making most of their own hardware.
I remember one early 90s "Take Your Kid to Work Day" where I went with my dad to Scientific Atlanta. They had some Silicon Graphics workstations that he showed me and he goes, "They look like toys but they cost $25,000," and my mind was blown because that was just south of what a Chevy Corvette or Porshce 911 cost at the time.