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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,sci.electronics,rec.video
Subject: Re: Technical Info on Fisher-Price Camcorder??
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Date: 10 Dec 88 19:04:03 GMT
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      OK, OK, here's what the thing is.

      The Fisher-Price Camcorder is a black and white slow-scan system
which records slow-scan, low-resolution video on an audio caisette drive
run at high speed, and outputs a standard NTSC monochrome signal obtained
by running the slow-scan video through an A/D, frame-store, and D/A.
Four custom chips are used, marked FP1 through FP4.  However, most of
the components can be obtained from Sanyo in commercial form.  The
CCD image sensor is a Sanyo part LC9943, a 180x130 pixel sensor.
Other Sanyo parts are available to drive the sensor.  Contact
Sanyo Semiconductor, 1333 Lawerence Expressway, Suite 109, Santa
Clara, CA  95051.

      It's an ingenious little unit.  It's only recording 4 frames per
second, but it outputs an RF TV signal to its display, which is just a
standard TV set.  The frame store seems to be a single 64K RAM.  

						John Nagle