28 Sep
2021
28 Sep
'21
12:27 a.m.
Commodore in the USA/CANADA was often pressed into service for a cheap
text video overlay for broadcast TV. Was that TV overlay ever used in
the UK or Europe?
Ben.
In the UK, Acorn gear was used quite a bit for overlays and computer
generated graphics. I think the Amiga was used to a certain extent in
commercial and small-enterprise video production, but the BBC almost
exclusively used RISCPC and BBC Micro's for their graphics.
The Centre for Computing History (a Cambridge based museum) did a great
video on the old Acorn broadcast gear used by the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exW-LbLRJV0
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exW-LbLRJV0>
Josh Rice
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