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Article #1328Re: Amiga NTSC Line Doubling
From: Roland Bengtsson
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:42
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:42
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>:Somebody had mentioned to me that the Amiga (the 3000 to be specific) had
>:the capabilites to do NTSC and PAL line doubling.
>:As a none Amiga user, I'm curious if this is true, and if so has anybody
>:applied this to a home-theater setup? It seems like this would be a
>:terrific alternative to the Faroudja Line-Doubler which can cost well over
>:$10K.
I don't know what this "Faroudja" is, but I have a A3000 and it simply double the PAL
signal 15 KHZ to VGA 30 KHZ so I can use a standard VGA-monitor for PC to watch PAL & NTSC
screens. It's a great trick indeed, and it's the only Amiga that handle this by default.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mn5.swip.net!usenet From: roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se (Roland Bengtsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Amiga NTSC Line Doubling Date: 25 Jan 1996 22:42:07 GMT Organization: - Message-ID: <1115.6598T1401T905@mbox3.swipnet.se> References: <4e5kkg$b6j@news.microsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup101-145.swipnet.se X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)