31 May
2007
31 May
'07
3:45 a.m.
Chris Halarewich wrote:
In 1986 the NewTek* Digi-View, built to run on the
Amiga platform,
was the first inexpensive video digitizer designed for home
computers.
That I can believe...
The Newtek DigiView video digitizer was the first
example of a video
digitizing system.
... but that? Surely the big players had such systems back into the '70s? I'm
sure I've seen mention of such things built around PDP hardware, graphics
terminals, and custom (naturally!) software.
Maybe they just mean it was the first example of a commercial home product?
It was
developed to take advantage of the Amiga 1000's advanced video capabilities
and was pluged into the Amiga's parallel printer port. A video cable then
lead from the digitizer to either a B&W video camera with a color wheel
attached
We got hold of something like that with an A500 setup a while back, but the
colour wheel had to be turned manually rather than being an automatic thing
(as I think the digiview is). Can't for the life of me remember who made it now...