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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: does this device exist?
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 14:02:34 GMT
- Organization: SunConnect
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- In article <69221@cup.portal.com>, joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
- >
- > 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-/
-
- Not so. All colour TVs incorporate such circuitry, to build a standalone
- composite->RGB decoder unit would cost about $50 for the parts, maybe a bit
- more if you needed an external power supply.
-
- Genlocks of course have much more in them than just that.
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- Steve
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