Bernd Meißner

Cary, using QuickTime alone doesn't make the difference. QuickTime is (like AVI) just a container format, offering a large range of codecs to be used. The qualitiy depends on several factors: 1. Quality of the original rendering (anti-aliasing, shading etc.). 2. Size of the resulting movie (in pixels). While most computers can play movies at smaller sizes without problems, it *could* be a problem playing sizes larger than NTSC/PAL (640/480 or 720/576). Depends on the codec used and the power of the playback machine. 3. The codec is the most important factor. While old codecs (like Cinepak) give small movie file sizes, the image quality is _bad_. Using the "animation" codec of quicktime gives a lossless compression and thus best quality, but will most likely lead to a jerky playback, because of extremely high data rates. Best choice would be modern codecs like Sorenson3, MPEG4 or H.264, which all give a high quality at low data rates. Given all that, I don't think a monitor would be the limiting factor for animation playback. Also an LCD should work (ignoring the viewing angle aspects here). I do a lot of animations (using a dedicated animation application) which look great on my Apple 23" display. Bernd