bolte@umn-cs.UUCP (Scott F. Bolte) (05/10/84)
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umn-cs!bolte May 9 19:31:00 1984
Siggraph:
I realize that Siggraph is over three months away but with all the
excitement of a newcomer to the field I am thinking about it already.
A second reason that I am thinking about it so far in advance is that
I live in Minneapolis and will be a student worker.
Does anyone care to release any information concerning what their company
(or university or...) will be showing here. It is not proprietary stuff that
I want, just teasers that will increase my anticipation of the coming event.
RGB:
We have some Sun workstations here at the research lab for CSci.
and for one application we would like to video tape the output. The VCR
is VHS format and the signal to the monitor is RGB over a RS170 cable with
medium resolution (i.e. 640 X 480). After talking to an endless line of people,
all of whom said "let me connect to to our xxxxxxx-specialist," who usually
had never heard of such an idea, I reached someone who said what I need
is a Bosch TCE-2000N encoder. The problem is is that it costs 3.2K even with
an educational discount. Does anyone know of either; A) another way to convert
RGB signals to composite video, or B) a place I can get the equivalent encoder
for less? Before you say film it let me tell you that we need a tape so that
we can put the display in front of infants and see what visual processes
have developed. This implied need for portability and durability also
rules out laser disk, as does the price.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Bolte !ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!bolte
Department of CSci
Inst. of Child Development
U of Minnesota, Minneapols
From one who will not wait until the last minute ( hour, day, week, month ...)
for
SIGGRAPH!!!!!
P.S. If you have a definite answer to the RGB question please post it to the
net. If this had been done in the past it would be there for all to read.stepoway@smu.UUCP (05/22/84)
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smu!stepoway May 22 11:30:00 1984
You need a little engineering know-how and a Motorola MC1377 Color
TV RGB to PAL/NTSC Encoder chip. It appears this chip will make the
construction of encoders both cheap and easy.
Steve Stepoway
smu!stepoway