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From: R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PVA, TOASTER, explanation
Message-ID: <38159R38@PSUVM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 16:58:54 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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Please realize that I am human and am subject to error.
From reading various magazines and talking to other hacks, I have found out:
PVA:
   24 bitplanes (16 million colors)
   Frame Grabber (1/60 a second)
   Frame buffer (generates graphics)
   Genlock (graphics over live video)
   All sits in 1 A2000 exp. port and A2000 video slot
   Resolution- not certain, probably normal amiga (w/overscan), should
   be standard enough for programs that can support it to do so
TOASTER:
   "Millions of colors" - best approximation
   Real time digitizer (frame grabber)
   Genlock
   Real time image processing - DONE BY SOFTWARE, not by hardware!
   Expandability- possibly add a TI video coprocessor for better graphics,
   and also maybe a frame controller for a VCR

Both units start at about $800.
I hope I have cleared up somewhat the situation without a great
degree of error.|
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]Please excuse any temporal discrepencies with what I say...
]...My temporal perception has discrepencies.

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