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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 100% amiga "Computer Chronicles" show on PBS
Message-ID: <1963@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 23:37:52 GMT
References: <1019@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1019@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>pin-stripe and McIntosh forum.  I was particularly impressed with
>the demonstation of the "Video Toaster" card for the 2000 (Amiga).  Man,
>that card does things that only an Ampex ADO could have done for
>about 30x the cost a couple of years ago.

I've heard that there are some off-the-shelf video chips that do
this sort of thing now, and supposedly that is what NewTek used.
Does anyone know what they are, i.e. who makes them etc...?

The apparently handle the ability to continuously read a video
signal into frame buffer memory according to programmable algorythms
which can provide the various real-time effects, zooming, spinning,
rotating etc. on the image.  Kind of a video-scan microprocessor.

Sure like to peruse the spec sheets of these animals.

Keith Doyle
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