Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cheap video
Message-ID: <1989Oct10.021254.19742@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <58338@psuecl.bitnet> <27656@amdcad.AMD.COM> <1989Oct6.060648.22704@utzoo.uucp> <27668@amdcad.AMD.COM> <14016@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 89 02:12:54 GMT

In article <14016@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes:
>     At this point, CCD imaging chips are widely available, being used in
>large number of camcorders, so prying the lids off RAMs is obsolete.  

The issue was never availability; it was price.  What are CCD prices like?
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