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#Amiga Control VCR?

    11-Jun-90 20:25:51
Sb: #Amiga Control VCR?
Fm: John Pendergrass 76246,676
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
As you seem fairly knowledgable in these things… (a bit aside from the thread, I'm afraid…) Do you know if it is possible to control a VCR from the Amiga in any way? Is there any way to have the Amiga read the video coming out of the VCR, and decide where it is on the tape, and take action based on that? ie. if at location X on the tape, genlock this anim over the tape video, if at location Y, then pause the VCR for 10 seconds and get some computer input, etc… Is this what SMPTE is? Is any prosumer level VCR capable of this? Now, back to CD-I (maybe I should call the other VD-I ))) –jp–