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From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What is DCTV?!!? (was Re:DCTV from Digital Creations)
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Date: 18 Sep 90 00:56:25 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu

> As I mentioned above, DCTV also includes a digitizer/framegrabber.  Because
> of the limitations on the parallel port the image will be required to be
> still for about 6 seconds for a complete still.  DCTV also digitizes those
> images in 24 bit color.

Just a quick note, DCTV may include a digitizer but from the discription
above, you can't call it a framegrabber.  Framegrabbers work in real-time
(1/30th of a second) to grab a single video frame (2 fields).  The DCTV video
digitizer is called a "Slow-Scan" device as it takes several seconds to
capture a single video frame.  The DCTV video digitizer will work much as the
NewTek DigiView product does.  The image must be still for the full time of
the scan so any live action is out.  Still quite a viable product though.

Without a paint package that does at least what Dpaint III does, however, I
find that the usefulness of this product is lacking.

-- Bob
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