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Sony MDP-1100 LD Player!

    17-Oct-91 20:43:06
Fm: Jim Ogilvie 72657,3437
To: John Pendergrass 76246,676
Well, lets see here.. First, the 2300 requires the video slot. So you cannot have both the flicker fixer and 2300 co-existing in the same machine (unless the DEB board would work, but as far as I know that's designed for the Microway flicker fixer card). The 2320 puts out two kinds of RGB video. 15 and 31 Khz. I don t't know what kind of video the IV24 wants, I really don't know anything about it. When you're talking about dealing with laserdisc applications, you really need to forget about flicker fixers and the like. Even if it means taking your 2320 out temporarily so you can develop your application. Screen positioning with the 2300 (with video being fed into it) get's messed up a bit, so for that reason alone you would want to develop your application *through* the 2300, just to make sure your screen positioning is correct. I don't see any way to use the 2320 output with Firecracker or Ham-E, cuz those devices require 15Khz video, although you could rig up something to get it to *work* with these devices, but you'd have to have the card in 'disable' mode to get 15Khz video out of it…so why bother. Unless you worded your message wrong and meant to ask if you can use the '2300' to overlay Ham-E type stuff and Firecracker stuff, that makes more sense to me. (your original message asked if you can use the 2320 and Ham-e or FF together). I haven't tried it, but I'd venture to say that, yes, why not? After all, the Ham-E and FF are fairly transparent in the way they deal with Amiga signals (or so it would seem). Ben might want to comment further. Jim