Re: Vision Digitiser

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From: burke
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:56

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In article <1992Dec16.184641.3377@cs.nott.ac.uk>, smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
> The Vision digitiser board is very sparsely populated, whilst the Rombo
> digitiser board is dense with chips and assorted logic.

As I understand it, the reason for this is that the HCCS board is basically
just an ADC, with all the video decoding done in software (quite a clever
piece of lateral thinking, IMHO). My impression from reading reviews is
certainly that the HCCS board is better. Can the Rombo one grab frames in
real time?

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