Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!ajberl!ottmar From: ottmar@ajberl.UUCP (Ottmar Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DigiView or DCTV ? Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 91 20:14:05 GMT References: <222@nos850.UUCP> <61683@masscomp.ccur.com> Lines: 30 >In article <61683@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes: >In article ottmar@ajberl.UUCP (Ottmar Roehrig) writes: >>If money isn't the point the VD2001 from Merkens EDV (Germany) seems to >>be the best 24 bit realtime digitizer/framebuffer available now. Note: >>realtime means REALTIME (eg. 25 pcitures digitized per second, not one >>in 1/25th of a second) it costs about 5000 DM in the overscan-version. > >Are there any plans for a version for the US running NTSC at 30 frames per >second? Also, if it can capture sequential real-time video, how much >can it store? ( 1 second of uncompressed video is roughly 20 MBytes of >storage) and can it play it back real-time. I would really like to do >some video roto-scoping but I have not seen an Amiga product that is >capable of doing it without MAJOR amounts of effort. Surely at the moment it is not possible to capture these digitized pictures in realtime but hardware is being developed that supports upto 100 MBytes RAM. This RAM will be accessible through special software from the Amiga. Upto now the advantage to have a VD2001 is the fact, that this card is the only one which has a design that could do these things (somewhen this year...) As far as I know there are no plans to develop a NTSC-Version... (Sorry, but we Europeans would also like a Video-Toaster...) Ottmar = AtelierRoehrig, Ottmar Roehrig, Hamburg, Germany UUCP: ...!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!ajberl!ottmar "Free your mind and your body will follow..." (Common sentence at Tekknozid-Parties)