Bell & Howell (De Grafe Video Presentation)

[John Boffemmyer IV]

Sort of like the concepts put into use (and even shown as example by 
female character late into the film) in the movie 'Rising Sun' with 
Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes.
-John Boffemmyer IV

At 09:14 AM 11/9/2005, you wrote:


>A bit more info's arrived on the De Grafe system resold by Bell and 
>Howell which I mentioned on the list a few weeks back...
>
>The machine's circa 1986 and is a large desktop system, comprising 
>main unit, small screen, tablet and keyboard. Cost 21,000 pounds when new.
>
>Capable of 4096 colours at 16 transparency levels simultaneously 
>from a palette of 16M (in 1986!), with 768 points per line 
>horizontal resolution (no idea of vertical, but as it's for TV type 
>use I expect in the region of 500 - 600)
>
>Capable of real time digitising from four mixable inputs. Genlock 
>capability with RGB input and PAL + NTSC output.
>
>
>It sounds rather awesome - can't wait to get hold of the hardware 
>and see how it's constructed (I wonder if it's totally custom, or 
>based around something like an S100 chassis. Whatever, it must have 
>some serious silicon in there to be able to shunt that much data 
>around at TV quality)
>
>cheers
>
>Jules


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