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Re: SVGA ---> NTSC

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From: Jeremy C. Radwan
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 17:13
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In a previous article, bbs.peter@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Peter Blum) says:

>
>        I am a student at Palo Alto High School( Palo Alto California). 
>And have been asked to do a project by the CAD lab to get Autocad and 3-D 
>Studio projects that students do onto video tape for use as a colledge 
>video type of thing, to show what the student has done. We need to get a 
>640x480( better if it could be 1024x768 or 800x600) at 24bits or at least
>32k. We have a local bus 486 and the video card does have a Feature 
>connecter. Truevision sent us a demo board but it needs a frame 
>controller an expensive VCR. All the board needs to do is output a NTSC 
>signal that can be put on a video tape. Does anybody know of any boards 
>that will do this. I have seen plenty of boards that will do 256 colors 
>but some of the stuff students do have more colors in them.
>

You might want to check out the VideoBlaster from Creative Labs. I'm pretty
sure it can handle more than 256 colors.

Also, PC Magazine did a review of SVGA -> NTSC boards a few issues back.
I can't remember which one offhand...
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From: ag154@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy C. Radwan)
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Subject: Re: SVGA ---> NTSC
Date: 3 Nov 1992 17:13:39 GMT
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