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- From: David Gentry <dgentry@vlsi4.racal.com>
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- Subject: Re: Amiga NTSC Line Doubling
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 14:14:50 GMT
- Organization: Racal-Datacom
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- petsalo@lut.fi (Jyrki Petsalo) wrote:
- > : On top of this, the would-be Line-Doubler would have to be able to intercept both the
- > : even and odd scan lines, by predicting the change between frames for each field for
- > : every frame, convert it to 30kHz, and redisplay both even and odd field scan lines as
- > : a composite image. The prediction part is what separates the Faroudja between lesser
- > : line-doublers.
- >
- >Our upcoming DblScan 4000 handles NTSC and PAL modes great. In comes 15kHz,
- >out goes 30kHz. Even interlace looks great on any VGA monitor.
- >
- >What do you need to predict? Can you make a scandoubler in any other way
- >than blazing out the incoming signal at double speed, line by line,
- >field by field? If you are making composites from fields, or buffering
- >the fields together, you have a flicker fixer, which kills moving video
- >converting it from 50/60 Hz to 25/30 Hz. Great for A3000 with no fast
- >native 30kHz modes, not good for much else.
-
- It's been a while since I read the original description on how the line-doublers
- work. I believe that the article stated that prediction was needed since the video
- stream was coming from a unit designed only for showing 1 field (half of a frame)
- every 60th of a second. In order for the line doubler to work, it seemed to need
- both fields in the same amount of time. Therefore, prediction was needed in order to
- correctly draw both fields. I'm sure that it stated that when the second frame
- finally came in, a comparison took place, and the on-screen image was altered a bit
- to find a happy median between what was shown and what was sent. I think there was a
- complaint about image fuzziness caused when what was predicted didn't exactly match
- what was intended to be sent.
- >
-
- >Line-quadrupler? Don't you need 60kHz monitor/projector/whatever for
- >that?
-
- I have no idea how the line-quadrupler works, or with what kind of monitor/projector,
- I just saw the ad and the stratospheric price. It would be hard to imagine a 60khz
- projector. The data-grade 30khz projectors are rare enough.
-
- D. G.
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