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- From: rblewitt@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt)
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- Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
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- Date: 5 Sep 92 06:42:36 GMT
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- In article <Bu39Mn.2Gx@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Tevonian) writes:
- >dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:
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- >>Amiga was designed from the ground up as a multimedia platform. That is
- >>why with an Amiga, you get direct NTSC video output, nice, smooth
- >>animation, and a Multitasking operating system.
- >
- >I don't believe that you get NTSC output standard in the Amiga 2000 or
- >3000 any more. The 1000's had it, but I believe you now need a Toaster
- >or DCTV like device to get NTSC. I may be wrong about this (I don't have
-
- The straight composit plug is gone, but since the video frequency
- does not need changing, a converter is very cheap, in fact, the 23
- pin video connector does have composit signals coming to it.
-
- >The DCTV is 21bit, if I remember correctly and does do a good job of
- >rendering NTSC output. The original poster was looking for animation
- >straight from Hard Drive. I don't think the DCTVs can do that, at least not
- >without some more help (either software or hardware). In my computer
- >animation courses last year, we were limted by the 9M RAM in the 3000's we
- >were using.
-
- With the right anim player, I'm certain that it can be done. One
- thing to remember, since the speed of the drive is limiting, the
- deltas have to be fairly small (1MB/s drive -> 66K delta at 15fps).
- This is of course true of any system.
-
- Rick
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