CompuServe Messages

Betty – Not too shabby huh? Actually I was getting a marginal cable feed on Tuesday, hence the small heringbone interference in the pics. I think I uploaded some info on it into DL2 some time back. Essentially it's a standalone unit, which plugs into the parallel port of the Amiga. The VD1 (Name of the unit) will grab 1 or 2 fields (2 fields = 1 frame) in real time at a 60th of a second. Viewing of the grabbed image is done on a second monitor (or the composite input of an Amiga monitor). The image is then transferrred into the amiga using software that comes with the unit. It takes about 25 sec or so to bring in a full 400 line HAM overscan image. As we use our own RGBN file format internally, we get perhaps the best HAM cleanup (palette choice) available on any amiga software. As we are using sophisticated hardware, the source can be ANY NTSC video input. Live, Broadcast, Tape or LaserDisk. We have recently added frame buffer capabilities to the unit. So now you can capture and output in 24bit mode, or users wil be able to generate 24bit pictures in Turbo Silver ver 3.0, and dump them our frame by frame thru the vd1 to tape in Higher resolution (768X768) 24bit NTSC. Using the frame buffer pretty much eliminates the jaggies. Retail price on the VD1 with frame buffer is $995. We will have a limited amount of units at $600 with our the frame buffer capability. As for availability, we are hoping for RAM to be delivered within 3-4 weeks. We have one room at the shop stacked with units all without the ram. Grrrrr…. We thought about offering the unit without RAM and letting the users get their own, but we are using a VERY FAST 4 bit chip that's hard for every one to get at a reasonalbe price. BTW I did get 18-20 pics from the special if you would like them, leave me an address in E-Mail, and I'll shoot ya out a disk full.