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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Converting PAL to NTSC on the fly
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Date: 14 Jul 89 02:08:58 GMT
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>In article <10350003@otter.hpl.hp.com> (on rec.arts.tv.uk), Lee Carter writes:
>>=The problems of converting between PAL and NTSC are numerous and
>>=unpleasant; They use entirely different methods to encode the television
>>=signal
>
>Certainly the conversion requires buffering through a digital
>framestore. I believe that the cost of fast enough RAM used to be the
>driving cost factor. You probably need 24 bitplanes and about 600 x 800
>resolution. But this is well within what's available in newer computer
>display cards, and it seems to me that several of the new display cards
>for the Mac-II are beginning to have framegrabbers.
>
>/ Lars Poulsen <lars@salt.acc.com>   (800) 222-7308  or (805) 963-9431 ext 358
>  ACC Customer Service              Affiliation stated for identification only
>                My employer probably would not agree if he knew what I said !!

Perhaps the easiest "solution" if you just want to watch european home
videos, is to get an ECS amiga, and a PAL monitor which will run on 60Hz
power.  (Sylvania used to make a TV set that was PAL/NTSC switchable.  Too
bad it never caught on.) 
siug

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