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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: does this device exist?
- Message-ID: <69221@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:02:12 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov6.193743.7172@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <BxD6o6.E34@fc.hp.com>
- <36799@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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- >In article <BxD6o6.E34@fc.hp.com> koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
- >> Martin Black (22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu) wrote:
- >>
- >> > Well Any genlock should work. Just bring up a black screen on your amiga,
- >> > and you will be able just amiga m to it. Of course they are like $200.
- >>
- >> That is the wrong direction. All the genlock advertizements I see say
- >> "NTSC Composite video out". That's not what I need; I want NTSC _in_, and
- >> analog (separated) RGB out. But thanks anyway.
- >
- >All the Commodore genlocks have had both RGB and Composite out. Still, it's
- >pretty expensive. If you want a nice composite monitor for your TV or VCR,
- >just pick up a spare 1080 or one of the Commodore C64 color monitors. Even
- >the cheaper computer monitors look beautiful as composite video monitors.
-
- You STILL don't get it. He wants an EXTERNAL COMPOSITE input to be
- transcoded to an RGB output. The CBM genlocks only give you the AMIGA VIDEO
- as RGB out.
-
- Transcoding baseband video to RGB won't be cheap. The unit must break the
- video into 3 descrete colors and output them. The Sunrize color splitter
- does this, but only on one color at a time. I can do it with my VideoMaster
- Genlock (transcodes Y/C and composite video as RGB, composite or Y/C) but
- that unit runs around $1000. 8-/
-
- Sorry I can't point you to any other solutions. Since most people need to
- go the other way (from better quality RGB to "worse" quality composite).
- Going from composite to RGB would only make crummy looking RGB :-)
-
- >George Robbins - now working for, work: to be avoided at all costs...
- >but no way officially representing: uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!g
- r
- >r
- >Commodore, Engineering Department domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >
-
- -Joel
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