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From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DCTV + CDTV = A SMASH HIT!
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Date: 6 Apr 91 18:53:36 GMT
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In article <10000026@hpmwmat.HP.COM>, mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) writes:
>
>	
>	I have a proposal for Commodore and it's CDTV....
>
>	Commodore, give Digital Creations a call, and see what they think
>	about incorporating the DCTV decoder hardware/software into
>	the CDTV.
>
>	As CDTV is pointed primarily as a NTSC device, DCTV would be right
>	at home in the CDTV, and would give it an AMAZING jump on the
>	competetion...  HAM is ok.  but 16 million NTSC colors is FANTASTIC!
>
>	And the way DCTV works, .anim files could be made to playback
>	in all 16M colors... full or partial screen... at a reasonable rate.
>
>	After all, DCTV frames are really nothing more than Hi-res/interlace
>	16 color IFF images as far as the Amiga hardware is concerned.  DCTV
>	would perform all the rest of the magic....
>
>	Other views on this???
>
>	-Mike-

   I think the DCTV is a tad bit too expensive to incorporate into the 
CDTV and still keep the price of the CDTV under $1000.  A better solution
might be to use the HAM-E instead.  

   BTW, doesn't the CDTV have an A2000-style video slot (intended mainly
for use with genlocks)?  If so, Black Belt could redesign the HAM-E to
fit into the CDTV's video slot, and sell it for that purpose, with a
CD-ROM of software to use with it.  Fitting the HAM-E for the video slot
instead of the RGB port might actually make the HAM-E less expensive,
because the circuitry to decode the analog RGB output back into digital
form would no longer be needed.

                       
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