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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Johathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: AAPS Micro TV
Message-ID: <5495@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 05:38:48 GMT
Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 249-0290 guest}
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I saw the AAPS Micro TV at Fry's Electronics this weekend.  For those of you
who have never seen this, it plays a television picture in a window on a
Mac II.  Fry's sells it for $295.  There wasn't any more information available,
so I'll have to guess how it works.

First of all, it's black and white.  It's size was fixed at about 160x120
pixels.  My guess is that it is a board that plugs into the NuBus, and
takes a composite video signal for input.  It probably digitizes the luminance
portion of the signal to about 4-bits, and then transfers it to the Mac's
frame buffer via DMA.

This next idea isn't too clever, so I'm sure it isn't original.  You
could take one of those picture-in-a-picture VCRs, feed it into a genlock
on an Amiga, and put up a custom screen with a window of color 0 right over
the little PIP.  Instant color TV in a window, at a total system cost less
than the Mac monitor alone.

-Jonathan