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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
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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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

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