Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!otc!siri From: siri@otc.otca.oz (Siri Hewa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Micro TV??? Message-ID: <2011@otc.otca.oz> Date: 14 Nov 90 22:00:16 GMT References: <6992@suns201.cel.co.uk> Reply-To: siri@otc.UUCP (Siri Hewa) Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia Lines: 44 In article <6992@suns201.cel.co.uk> jc@cel.co.uk (jerry cullingford) writes: >In article ghost@bucsf.bu.edu (Jay Adelson) writes: >> >>Does anyone know if there are any plans out there to make a "Micro TV" >>for the amiga? >> >>Micro TV ( I think that's the name) is an application which will allow >>you to watch TV in a window on the screen while doing whatever... >(1) Why bother? It seems a little silly to me, but if you really want to >watch TV: >(2) Use a genlock and a Picture-in-picture VCR. Put a transparent amiga >window over the PIP display. I think Jerry do not know what the original question was.Having a video picture in a window is quite new technology,since most of the mac third party hardware are not quite real time as they claim to be.These are digitised real time,not just genlock as some think.We do lots of reasearch in to this as we can see in future when B-ISDN (1995?),is available?,you can have real time video data base that can access from anywhere.Although multimedia applications are there as well.We already have experimental video links with raw fibre around the building,which link some computers. Mac live video bd's are,RasterOps.radius tv,DVA4000,and experimental Supermac, which is really superb. Out of the first three radius is a better one due to the fact that it does not rely om mac nubus,but need a 24 bit graphic card. I wrote this because I want to see same type of bd's for Amiga to be develop.And I think rasterOps are trying at the moment.(Can any one confirm).I have been tall that Amiga window and mac window multitasking is quite different,and using same design,on Amiga is difficult.(Please I need more feed back on this one).Dont forget about video compression that come with these cards as well. Siri Hewa. !!!!OTC!! R&D VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS.