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From: dmwr@GNU.AI.MIT.EDU (Mutha Funkenstein)
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Subject: Re: Do the new 8.24 color cards from Apple output to VCRs ?
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Date: 21 Aug 90 02:08:55 GMT
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In article <9211@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca (Sundar) writes:
>I read in the April 1990 issue of 'Macintosh Aided Design' that the new 
>8.24 (Picasso) and the accelerated 8.24GC (Monet) video cards from Apple 
>support interlaced video output to TVs and VCRs. My local Mac dealer seems 
>to know nothing about this. Can anybody confirm/squash this information ?
>
>Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca  <Internet>
>userffa3@ubcmtsg           <Bitnet>
>Civil Engineering
>UBC, Vancouver V6T 1W5
>CANADA

As far as I know, they do not directly support interlaced video
output.  But, a company called Computer Video based in Massachusetts
sells a box for $395 (I think) that will take the output of the board
and convert it to NTSC.  The quality, which I have seen first hand, is
incredible.  With the 8.24 card it was good enough to use a TV as your
mac monitor.  Not a bit of flicker (even on the window drag regions).

Damian

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