Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun14.213914.1151@ncsu.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 21:39:14 GMT References: <1991Jun12.192948.20028@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun14.125339.18489@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 24 davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: >> Why will this thing take so long to develop? This CDTV-PIP device >> is simply a genlock, and Commodore has been producing those for years. >> For Commodore to use this device to advantage over the CD-I competition, >> they should get this device out as soon as possible. > Where do you see it saying it is a GenLock? I didn't. In fact, the > sub-name is "PIP" which is normally used to mean "Picture In a Picture", Yah. A PIP device would require storage for an incoming picture which must be digitized and then overlaid on the CDTV output. Altho this could be slightly easier in CDTV's case, because its video could be genlock'd to the external video input. > ...sounds like a usefull new feature, which is not even available for Amiga > computers yet. Besides, what does having a genlock have to do with CD-I? > The magnavox unit is not even expandable, and I doubt that ANY unit below > $1000 will support a genlock any time soon. But possible. The CD-I chipset was made to support external syncing, and even has a mode making it easy to store digitized video into its vidram. It WAS designed by people who also make commercial digital TV chips, after all :-) cheers - kevin