Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!celia!neil From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DCTV Message-ID: <1006@celia.UUCP> Date: 2 May 91 17:35:05 GMT References: <997@celia.UUCP> <1161@cbmger.UUCP> <1002@celia.UUCP> <1179@cbmger.UUCP> Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond) Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood Lines: 33 In article <1179@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes: >I guess there's no magic at all. They sure don't take the analog NTSC >signal as source, but the digital RGB data available one step earlier >in their box. Then they perhaps need a little adaptor board to make >these signal lines available. But this is all pure speculation. Well..., I spoke to someone at Digital Creations the other day. He was not very specific, but he mentioned that he thought the RGB device would go between the DCTV and the Amiga RGB port. My reaction is that this does not make much sense. I don't know that much about the RGB output, except what I see in the manual and it does not look bi-directional. If you put a device of some kind between the DCTV and the Amiga, it seems to me that you are bypassing the DCTV altogether. The person I spoke to said that he thought it would RGBize the composite signal to give RGB which confirms my concerns. He said it was to be done mostly for those who want to apply a genlock. He said their main customer base was video oriented. And that you still get more colors than ham. I saw in the manual where they were going to be aiming at the Desktop Publishing market as well. My reaction is still that painting in NTSC will give you an inferior quality image to painting in RGB even if the DCTV can create 24 bit ILBM files, because you are not really painting with 24bits. I spoke to Progressive Peripherals, who actually make the DCTV box. They had no comment until June when this RGB device is supposed to be released. Well, it looks like I will have to get a Firecracker, which is too bad, because it is very expensive and you can buy a similar device for a Mac for under $500. Of course, in order to put a 68040 in the Mac LC you have to invest $3000. YOW!!! neil -- Only 3166 shopping days left till the next millenium! Neil F. Richmond INTERNET: celia!neil@usc.edu Rhythm & Hues Inc. UUCP: ...{ames,hplabs}!lll-tis!celia!neil)