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- From: John Scheermeijer <scheermeijer.john.wj@bhp.com.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Variable speed PAL video
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 03:29:28 GMT
- Organization: BHP Transport
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- Nowadays everyone, Amiga Technologies included, seems to be pushing
- digital video, MPEG etc., for all it's worth. However, I see the main
- strength of the Amiga technology as being it's compatability with the
- still prevelant video standards. For a relatively small outlay on a
- genlock and some public domain software, one can achieve have a fairly
- impressive desktop video setup.
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- I believe there is still a long future for analogue video and wonder
- whether there are any people out there that are working to capitalise on
- this unique strength of the Amiga technology.
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- If I recall, video laser disk technology (ie. the large disks ) is
- analogue based. Has anyone tried to adapt this technology or the VHS tape
- based technology for variable speed play back (ie. noiseless)? I realise
- the associated monitor's screen raster rate would need to be changed in
- synchronism. I would have thought that an Amiga genlock could be designed
- to cope with this form of operation without to much difficulty and that
- this new form of operation could lend itself to many useful applications.
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- Any thoughts?
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- John Scheermeijer
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