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- From: dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale)
- Subject: Re: How to convert RS-170A RGB to NTSC cheaply?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.070818.11066@imax.imax.com>
- Organization: Imax Corporation, Mississauga Canada
- References: <1993Jan8.194412.11204@vicorp.com>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:08:18 GMT
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- ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
- >Is there a cheap way to convert RS-170A RGB&Sync to NTSC? I seem
- >to remember an article in Radio Electronics but can't find it.
- >Would it be as simple as using a high speed op amp to sum them?
-
- If you just want a B&W signal, yes, you don't need much more than
- a few resistors and a video-bandwidth op amp.
-
- But if you want colour, it's much more complicated. Basically,
- you need to convert RGB into Y (luminance, the B&W signal above)
- plus two colour difference signals (R-Y, B-Y), then lowpass filter
- the colour difference signals, then use them to amplitude modulate
- two colour subcarrier signals. The subcarrier signals are derived
- from the same crystal oscillator, but with a 90 degree phase shift
- between them.
-
- There is a single chip that does most of this for you, if you're
- not too fussy about quality. I don't know its part number, though.
-
- Dave
-