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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Digi-View and Video
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Date: 16 Feb 91 10:16:33 GMT
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In article <DAZXSCV@cs.swarthmore.edu> hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu writes:
>Recently, I've been interested in setting up a digitizing system with a 
>Digi-View and a VCR or other video source.  The VCR has an excellent pause, 
>but I was wondering what the results would be like digitizing from a video 
>source like that.  Is there any distortion or bad output I should know 
>about?  Would a color splitter compound any problems?  Just how good is the 
>output anyway?
>
>Thanks in advance.

I've tried videos with "excellent pause", and they weren't good enough
if they weren't digital freeze-frame. The digitized picture gets very
fuzzy.

The resolution gets not at all as good as with a good B/W camera.