Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!texbell!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!orion.cf.uci.edu!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 32 bit QuickDraw Message-ID: <21161@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 16:10:05 GMT References: <509@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu Distribution: comp.sys.mac Lines: 39 adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) writes: >Not to be pessimistic, folks, but encoders (RGB->NTSC) cost a lot. I mean, >more than $600 and at least $700 or $800 for a good one. And that's only to >convert to NTSC. Then there's the cost of the video board for the computer, >which, for a 24 bit board, runs expensive (about the $1000 that RasterOps is >charging for this new one (anyone who says "That's right, three digits" about >RasterOps' price is kidding themselves)). Quote from RasterOps brochure obtained at Expo: "Two separate oscillators. [One] to support Apple's 13" color monitor at a resolution of 640 x 480, and the [other] to output 8-bit gray scale video directly to VCRs or TV monitors. It will also output RGB NTSC video for external encoding in 24-bit True Color. ..." later: "Circuitry that automatically senses which monitor you are using and switches automatically from 66.7 Hz to 30 Hz. You just plug in your Apple-compatible monitors, the board will take care of the rest." >I saw the picture of the RasterOps >board in MacUser, and I thought I remembered both a) seing a place where an >NTSC or PAL conversion board would snap/solder in, and b) reading something >about the NTSC/PAL board being optional. The pictures I've seen don't look like the finished product I held in my hands: the video RAM looks to be on a daughterboard in the ads, but the boards I saw had direct surface mount v-RAM directly on the main card. There were no provisions for a daughterboard. So it appears to be a pretty good deal... --scott -- Scott Truesdell