31 May
2007
31 May
'07
12:16 a.m.
On 5/30/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On May 30, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> > I have something similar in a Polaroid product - a high-res B&W
>> CRT in a box with an internal motorized color wheel and a video input...
> ... about 6" wide, 5" tall, about 18" deep...
Ahhhhh ok. I've heard of those but have never
seen one. I
believe it was (more or less) the predecessor of the computer-driven
one that my store used to sell.
I don't recall the name "Palette" appearing on the outside, but I
can't remember how it _is_ marked (some sort of "image copy
processor"?) I'll have to check the next time I'm in the right
basement.
Man, that box sounds like lots of fun!
It is a lot of fun. I think it took me finding parts from 3 locations
(Dayton, Uni surplus, and online) to get it working, but it's not
difficult to use. In my googling tonight to remind myself of the name
of it, I ran across several pages on Polaroid desktop film recorders.
I had to chuckle (or was it wince ;-) at one page that decried
pre-Digital Palettes as "totally useless" because they were designed
for CGA and didn't work with any "modern" (VGA) output devices, nor
were there any drivers. My device can be attached to a C-64 or a DVD
player, or anything else with an NTSC video stream (RGB is an option
for computer output) which is still ubiquitous (but for how much
longer?) No OS or funky drivers required.
My first test image was from a Sony LDP-1500 laser disc player since
it has a nice freeze-frame when loaded with a CAV disc (but no
freeze-frame at all with CLV discs - common with earlier players).
-ethan