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chris319:
At the time the Video Toaster was not a finished product and the Amiga's video output was never fully broadcast quality, mainly because the display didn't cover the entire width of the screen. The setup used on CC involved Targa graphics cards and their RGB outputs were externally encoded to NTSC using Faroujda encoders and then somehow genlocked. In addition, a custom-built control panel was attached to these computers to control the whole affair. I also seem to recall that hard drives for the Amiga in those days were not quite commonplace.

Playing a home game, if the computer hiccups it's "Oh, well." In a live network television production environment where downtime costs by the minute, you need a more "industrial strength" solution than plastic-cased Amigas. They say that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, and when you have a $20,000 budget, why go with a $500 consumer-grade computer?

As for using two PCs, I don't know. Corey Cooper could tell you why.

Jimmy Owen:
Painting the puzzles on plywood and sawing them into 25 pieces sounds a lot easier.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 06:32 PM\'] Painting the puzzles on plywood and sawing them into 25 pieces sounds a lot easier. [/quote]
 I'm sure that part was. Fixing the mechanical board when it broke down, instead of a simple reboot, prolly wasn't so much.

Clay Zambo:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 08:05 PM\'] The setup used on CC involved Targa graphics cards and their RGB outputs were externally encoded to NTSC using Faroujda encoders and then somehow genlocked. [/quote]
Gotta love the tech talk.

Weren't the Faroujda encoders located in Jeffreys tube #9?  ;)

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 09:50 PM\'] [quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Dec 1 2003, 08:05 PM\'] The setup used on CC involved Targa graphics cards and their RGB outputs were externally encoded to NTSC using Faroujda encoders and then somehow genlocked. [/quote]
Gotta love the tech talk.

Weren't the Faroujda encoders located in Jeffreys tube #9?  ;) [/quote]
 I dunno, but I suggest that if you are going to check, the least you can do is buy Jeffrey dinner and a movie first. ;)

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