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From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: DCTV + CDTV = A SMASH HIT!
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.064457.26631@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 06:44:57 GMT
References: <10000026@hpmwmat.HP.COM> <1991Apr6.185336.26417@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <1991Apr6.185336.26417@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:


>   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.

>                              -MB-    

   The HAM-E device is BIG people -- Prolly a 7" x 7"box. Unless they
did VLSI or Suface Mount I don't think it could get much smaller. The
CDTV video slot is connected to a pullout board that has RF, Comp
output on it. So one could build a Genlock, Toaster :-) whatever to
plug in.




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