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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMDEX report
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Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 05:22:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 05:22:58 1987
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In article <300@uscacsc.UUCP>, papa@uscacsc.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
> This is a report after a frenzy 1-day at COMDEX, with lots of time spent
> at the Commodore-Amiga booth.

Frenzy is right! I spent as much time as I could, but still could not cover
everything. Since you beat me to posting this, I'll just add what I picked
up.

> * FlickerFixer from MicroWay.  This is the first Amiga product from MicroWay,
> a company known for building good hight-speed hardware for PCs.  This is the
> much requested de-interlacer.  It takes both interlaced fields and builds 
> a single one with twice the frequency (35 instead of the standard Amiga 17.5).
> It will be available in January and will retail for $595.  It can be connected
> to all the widely available multi-scanning monitors, such as NEC Multisync
> and Sony Multiscan (which will lock at 35) and is also compatible with all
> VGA monitors.  For further information call MicroWay at (617)746-7341.
> If you need flicker-free interlace color, this solution will cost you about
> $1000 (including the monitor).

I pressed for suggestions on a desirable monitor. This is a very urgent problem
for me since I have two Amigas and one monitor. 8^( Although multi-scanning
monitors were suggested, I asked what would be the best or highly recommended.
The answer was VGA compatable (640x440) and Mitsubishi. The reason for
Mitsubishi was that it could also handle NTSC video. Mitsubishi has only one
monitor like this, the AUM1371A Diamond Scan. The resolution of this monitor
is 800x560. It accepts four input signals:

	1) NTSC           (330x500)
	2) RGB TTL        (800x560)
	3) RGB analog     (800x560)
	4) Monochrome TTL (800x560)

It's 14" diagonally, 13" high .31 mask pitch. 

This really looks like the video answer for the Amiga, since it will support
NTSC video, deinterlaced scan converters, monochrome, and plain old RGB.
Now I know what to do with the monochrome output!

But you still need a 50 watt stereo for sound! 8^)

Egg on my face, I don't know the price!!!!  A shot in the dark, $800.00

Anybody care to comment on this monitor or others?

> * NewTek's Tim Jenison showed "Video Toaster", a "real-time, full color
> digitizing, real-time digital-video effects and a broadcast quality
> genlock in one systems", for $799.95.  At this price, it looks much better
> that all other genlock-only systems that cost pretty much the same.  It 
> will be upgradable with add ons that include:real time-processing support,
> TMS 34010 video coprocessor, croma-key, programmable video switcher (??).

Egads! How did I miss this! I thought this stuff was cranking out of memory
ala Maxine Headroom. Anymore details? Like what kind of video effects?
What slot(s) are used?

> * As of Wednesday, the 82086 board was still held up at customs (it came from
> Germany), but there was talk that an 80386 board (also from Germany) will
> be demonstrated at one of the Spring Shows.

Does that mean 80286 boards are immanent? Tell us more!

There was also a CBM 68020 CPU board for the A2000 MMU connector previewed.
It had a 68881, PMMU, and 2 meg of 32-bit wide memory. It was in the 
Byte by Byte A2000 box, running Sculpt3D. 

Speaking of Sculpt3D, there were some fantastic demos running! (Not just Kahn).
Alas, I couldn't get the demos!

> All in all, it was a very interesting COMDEX.

Yup!

> -- Marco Papa
>    Felsina Software


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