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From: gsarff@meph.UUCP (Gary Sarff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digi-View needs special gender changer
Message-ID: <00035@meph.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 20:34:30 GMT
References: <12595@srcsip.UUCP>,<285@antares.UUCP>
Organization: WICAT Systems Inc. Orem, Utah (Engineering-R & D)
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In <285@antares.UUCP> jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) writes...
>In article <12595@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd P. Carpenter) writes:
>>3)  I got Digi-view for some fun.    I didn't want to spend $22.00 on their
>>  gender bender, so I just hooked up a normal cable gender bender (to convert
>>  from A500 to A2000).  Does anyone know it you can use this with
>>  output from a VCR (RCA output) or do you really need the camera (I tried, but
>>  all I get is "video signal not present").
>
>A straight gender changer will NOT work.  The Amiga 1000 provides +5V, NC,
>and RESET on pins 23, 24, and 25 respectively.  The Amiga 2000 provides
>these signals on pins 14, 15, and 16 respectively.  Therefore you are not
>supplying plus five volts to the DigiView device.
>
>If your VCR has a rock-solid freeze frame, you can do B&W digitizing (16
>shades of gray).  To do color, you have to have the camera and color
>filter.  That's because DigiView digitizes RGB as 3 monochrome exposures.
>A VCR cannot provide red-only, green-only, or blue-only signals.

You can however get the "color splitter" from sunrize technologies, about
$89 I think.  I have one, it has a 3 way toggle switch on it for Red, Green
and Blue.  Plug your vcr into the color splitter via an rca cable, plug
the color splitter into the digiview and use the red, green, blue menu
items of digiview and move the splitter's switch.  It does work.  Mine
was one of the first ones I think, no manual in the box, nothing but the
colorsplitter with a bunch of connectors on the back, so it was a guess
what they were for.

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