Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bbn!mit-eddie!mit-amt!adam From: adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MicroTV and NTSC Message-ID: <494@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:51:54 GMT References: <4086@shlump.nac.dec.com>Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 27 sarrel@cherokee.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: > I've been following these two subject threads (the Micro TV in a > window on a Mac II and the cable and software that will get NTSC > output from an Apple video card) and it occurred to me that technology > has now advanced to the point where you could hook the NTSC video > output from the video card to the NTSC input to the MicroTV and have a > live picture of what you were doing on the mac screen in a window... Uh, I don't think so... The video out hooks to a monitor or vcr. You don't see what you're doing unless you have a monitor hooked to the vcr (if that is where the mac is sending the signal) or the mac (if you have a direct hookup). So you could thoroughly confuse your MicroTV and your mac, but you won't be able to see it. More problems: the MicroTV supposedly slows the mac down 30%. Well, the software that slows the scan rate of the card down to NTSC scan speed slows the computer down 40 ro 60%. You're going to have one _SLOW_ machine, if it works at all. Good luck... Adam -- "Offer me anything I ask for..." (mail address in message header) "Anything you want." "I want my father back, you son of a bitch." - The Princess Bride