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From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Black BElt Video
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Date: 8 Jan 90 19:56:55 GMT
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kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes:
>Which reminds me- Why hasn't anyone come out with a box similar to
>this one that buffers alternating lines from an interlaced screen and
>sends 'em out noninterlaced to a Multisync monitor? Sure, the frame
>rate would kind of suck, but it seems an obvious and semi-easy
>hardwarewise way to de-interlace Amiga screens on the way out.

Well, for one, it would be more expensive due to the ram required for
buffering.

But heck, why stop there?  Why not allow up to 6 frames to be buffered
and allow a 1280x600 screen?  Or a 640x600 in this neato 24bit mode?

:-)

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