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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: RGB to NTSC
Message-ID: <1209@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 13:28:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 13:28:02 1987
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References: <1189@gryphon.CTS.COM> <870812173133.2.DP@BANFF.PALLADIAN.COM>
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In article <870812173133.2.DP@BANFF.PALLADIAN.COM> Jeffrey Del Papa <DP%JASPER@LIVE-OAK.LCS.MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>    Date: 11 Aug 87 22:33:07 GMT
>    From: ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!crash!gryphon!richard@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu  (Richard Sexton)
>
>    Ok, ok, my mailbox is full, gimmee a break, here it is:
>
>    RGB (1280x1024) to NTSC converter seen at SIGGRAPH:
>
>       Photron Limited
>       Jingumae 6-12-15,
>       Shibuya-Ku,
>       Tokyo 150
>       Japan
>
>    Price quoted was about $20K.
>
>querey: This thing deals with the conversion to lower resolution? or does it just
>produce a high speed ntsc signal? (which I have seen with some sort of a HDTV demo
This thing has two modes: one that converts 1280 x 1024 RGB to 1024 x 512 NTSC,
and another mode that takes a 640 x 480 window from the (middle of the ?) 
screen and converts that to NTSC.

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