Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!kalamazoo.Stanford.EDU!ronf From: ronf@kalamazoo.Stanford.EDU (Ron Frederick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Digital Eye Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 17:13:20 GMT References: <1991May3.035153.16230@cs.wayne.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Distribution: usa Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 32 koc@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jon Cardwell) writes: >About "Digital Eye"; I recently received the "Software & Peripherals, >Spring 1991" catalong from NeXT, and I found the Digital Eye (tm) >product listed as two different items in the Data Acquisition and >Sound section: >My question is: Does this mean that the "Digital Eye" only samples >the NTSC video signal in monochrome, and is already a released product, >and the "Color" digitial eye is a newer, soon-to-be-released enhanced >version? It seems like it... I hopes this helps. If you don't have >the catalog (I assume not, as of your posting), then ask NeXT to send >you one. It's chalked full of interesting h/w & s/w stuff!! I managed to get a look at the spec sheet for the original Digital Eye, and it mentioned being able to grab frames at 640x480 with 8 bits of greyscale. It also mentioned be able to grab up to 15 frames/second of moving video, but it sounded like that would be at a lower resolution. From the descriptions you entered, it sounds like this might be even more true of the Color Digital Eye -- calling it a "frame grabber" suggests that they're not really planning to support full motion video at all. Thanks for the additional info... Ron -- Ron Frederick ronf@cs.stanford.edu