Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!mips!daver!intersil!hamilton From: hamilton@intersil.uucp Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DCTV - internal chips Message-ID: <262.28282f1f@intersil.uucp> Date: 8 May 91 17:02:23 GMT References: <24586@well.sf.ca.us> <1991May4.204709.18820@ncsu.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Santa Clara CA Lines: 21 In article <1991May4.204709.18820@ncsu.edu>, kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: > cassiel@well.sf.ca.us (Paul Theodoropoulos) writes: >>welllll, i opened up my DCTV and was confronted with a thin paper tab >>that stated that "if this seal is broken, the warranty is >>void", and it was glued across the two halves of the case. and the >>insides are surrounded by a foil rf sheild, so nothing can be seen. >> >>but then, it's a ninety day warranty....so, drop me a line in two >>months, and i'll let you know what's inside. ;^) > > *chuckling* Thanks for trying to look, anyway, Paul! My guess is that > you'll find some Signetics digital TV chips in there... Well, being either braver or stupider than most, and working for the data acq division of Harris here, I already opened mine up. It's fundamentally an 8 bit flash converter (Micropower, can't remember the model), and a huge honkin ASIC. There's also some glue logic and some other stuff. -- Fred Hamilton "Unlike most of you, Harris Semiconductor I am not a nut..." Santa Clara, CA -Homer Simpson