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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: De-Interlacers
Message-ID: <2254@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 13:56:57 EST
Article-I.D.: gryphon.2254
Posted: Wed Nov 11 13:56:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 05:32:59 EST
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: NEC? Custom-IC scan-doubler de-interlace, Toshiba

In article <129@lzfme.UUCP> ralph@lzfme.UUCP (R.BRANDI) writes:
>In article <7718@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, oconnor@sunray.steinmetz (Dennis Oconnor) writes:
>> A Japanese company ( NEC? ) has produced a 263 by 963 memory chip
>> specifically for deinterlacing. They plan to put it in some of their
>> high-end consumer televisions, which will take NTSC-format input and
>> display it as 525-line frames displayed 60 times a second. This 
> 
>This has already been done.  I recall almost a year ago seeing ads
>from Toshiba (of Soviet subs fame) talking about the first REAL use
>of digital circuitry in TVs, to do something other than put another
>picture in the corner or posterize your picture.  It was only
>available in a 26 inch model, as I recall.  If Toshiba can do it, I
>would expect to see a lot of other manufacturers incorporating such
>a beast in the next year or so....

Don't hold your breath. When I saw the ad for the Toshiba (about 2 years
ago) I called Toshiba. What I wanted to ask was basically will this thing
act like an RGB monitor, and de-interlace in the monitor. It took me almost
a week, and I must have taslked to every Toshiba employee in the U.S.

The conclusions: No, sir, it takes digital not analog RGB (ARRRRRG !!
so close, but yet so far) and it deinterlaces by interpolating lines.

Oh well. 

I'd like to see a Sony KV1311 equiv. that deinterlaces in the monitor.

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