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From: drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr)
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Subject: ColorBurst
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Date: 17 May 91 18:56:07 GMT
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Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo
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In a message From: dcoteles@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (David Domenick Cotelessa)

>In article <3774@beguine.UUCP> Viet.Ho@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Viet Ho) writes:
>>Just saw Colorburst up close at the Los Angeles VideoExpo.
>>Very impressing, clean RGB images, a little flicker, but
>>what do you expect from interlaced???
>
>Well, if you have a flicker fixer...

...it won't do you any good.  The FF (and de-interlacer for that matter)
only works on the normal Amiga video for a long list of reasons (it only
does 4096 colors, it works on the internal bus-not on thRGB out that is
equivalent to the ColorBurst output, etc. etc.)

>>Got to see the fades, wipes and high speed scrolling.
>>OK, imagine DigiPaint super-bitmap scrolling, except
>>instead of HAM, you have a nice clean 768x480 24 bit
>>image.
>
>Sounds nice.....Now how about seeing some animation on this baby.
>(I've heard that it can do some real-time animation in at least
>4096 colors HI-RES.)

Yeah, they say that and 256 color hi-res animation too.

There's a utility to use a 24 bit brush for a pointer too! (OK, at least I
think that's neet)  But of course I'd have to bypass my de-interlacer to
see it, and go back to flicker (see above).

>>Looks like it's all set to go, complete with packaging,
>>just waiting for FCC approval.   The box is about the size
>
>I and half the world has heard this one before...
>FCC seems to be a real pain in the ass when some good product
>comes around (HDTV will be here soon honest...no really, oh yeah
>and Digital Audio Tapes to replace CD's no prob...as SOON as FCC
>approves..) Don't hold your breath on this stuff. Until it gets
>approval, THEN we can make the hoopla about this fabulous product.

The board passed, the cable flunked :-)  As soon as they re-design it so
that it will pass AND can be manufactured, we'll get it.  That sounds to me
like I might be able to get my hands on one next week (fingers crossed and
turning blue).

>>Oh, one of the designers was there and said they are
>>working on the 1/60th sec frame grabber.   It's gonna
>>be around $400 extra.    Time to sell my DCTV.
>
>$400 + $400 for frame-grabber and 24-bit card, plus getting
>Macro Paint for 24-bit paint program, and Imagine for 3-D graphics,
>plus a genlock and chroma-key and extra effects and what'dya got?
>
>A Toaster at twice the cost!!(But then again, with the set-up like
>the above statement, expansion beyond the Toaster would be a heck of a lot
>eaiser, since everything bought is a different component, instead of one
>jumbled product that leaves you at the mercy of the company that produced it.)

Well, not exactly.  The toaster does most of its stuff in 24 bits, but it still
only puts out composite (with all its artifacts).  ColorBurst comes with a full
24 bit paint program at no extra cost.  The ColorBurst can also show more
graphics modes, be upgraded from 1.5 to 8Megs of memory for more buffers, and
work with the 500 and 1000 models.  Beyond that, we'd be hard pressed to find
another device that does the effects that the Toaster does.  But then I'm not
planning to run a video studio as one would with the Toaster.  I will probably
stick with graphic presentations and single frame animation (to be done the
cheap way with a film camera - hence the desire for RGB output).

Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)

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