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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga video
Message-ID: <875@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 22:56:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 22:56:46 1986
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Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: RS-170A compatable?

In article <608@chinet.UUCP> cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) writes:
>Does anyone know if the Amiga video meets RS-170A specifications?
>
>				Rich Andrews ...ihnp4!chinet!cabbie

In general the Amiga comes closer than most to meeting video standards than
most systems, however it does not provide 'broadcast quality' signals.  It
is probably adequate for use with home video equipment CCTV and the like, but
for bradcast use the best thing is to feed the RBG outputs into a studio
encoder and process the sync signals.  The same is true of the Genlock device,
but it is able to synchronize the Amiga to an external sync source (genlock!).

It does put out the H/2 equalizing pulses, but I don't belive it does the
finer pulse width modulations.  Also, there is no distinction between the
reference black level, and the blanking level.  A true video person could
probably give a better analysis of this...
-- 
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