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- From: tw116@cus.cam.ac.uk (T. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ProGRAB 24RT Frame Graber and Digitizer QUESTIONS
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 10:59:49 GMT
- Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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- In article <Pine.SCO.3.91.960207202821.14612A-100000@athena.compulink.gr>,
- Menelaos Malaxianakis <jenny@compulink.gr> wrote:
- >
- >Hello there to all Amiganauts!!!
- >today(Febryary 7th of 1996)a ppurchase wich I had made from England
- >arrived.The digitizer Prograb 24 with the PCMCIA interface.
- >The problem is that I dont know what kind of cable I need to connect my
- >video(which is VHS and not S-VHS but I dont think that this is really
- >doesnt matters) or my Sony pal tv 14 inches with Scart output or my
- >CamCored which is using the 8mm format.
-
- The TV has SCART output?
- Does the video have SCART out, by the way?
-
- >I used a cable which I had been using for coppying video tapes from one
- >video to another.You know by plugging to the source the cable in the
- >video and audio outs and to the copy to the video and audio ins.
- >I used the same cable with the digitizer by connecting only the one end
- >of the cable to the video out and at the other side of the cable to the
- >digitizer.But still the software says No Video Signal.What is it happening?
- >Am I using the wrong cable?Am I connecting the cable to the wrong in of
- >the digitizer?(because it has two ins and I really dont know which I
- >should be using).
- >Also I purchased a Scart cable which I connected it to my SonyTV.The one
- >end at the TV and the other end at the digitizer(in the same hol)but
- >still the same error by the software:No Video Signal!!!.All of the above
- >I tried them out and with the parallel cable and with the pcmcia
- >interface.But still with the same results.
-
- I think that SCART (at video etc.) to phono (at Digitiser) should be OK.
- Do note that such a cable is directional, or so I was told!
-
- >Please if anyone can help please e-mail me.Since my nerves are going down
- >and because I intend to use my Amiga 1200 with Blizard 1230IV with
- >8mbfast ram professionally in graphics.
- >thanks in advance,
- >Menis Malaxianakis-jenny@compulink.gr
- >TURKS LEAVE THE GREEK ISLANDS RESPECT THE INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
- >AMIGA RULES
-
- Trevor
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