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In article 633 burke@vxdesy.desy.de writes:

>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?

Another clever side effect of doing the video decoding in software is that 
the hardware for the colour digitiser is the same as that for the mono. It is
only the software that is different, or so I believe. 
I have looked at both the mono and colour boards, and both are identical. 
The only difference appeared to be the software that was supplied.
I have yet to verify this with an actual test, but I'm pretty sure it's
true.

The quality of the images generated by both the mono and the colour is
very good, especially considering the low price of the mono version.

Andy.

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