[rescue] Re: Why .* sucks (was Re: FDDI card)

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:41:46PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> OK, now I went from thinking that was a cool haul to being seriously jealeous.

it gets better.  i made the deal with the guy for the Onyx.  after we agreed
on the price, he said, oh, btw, it has an MCO.  cool.  and i didn't pay for it
since the price was derived from the config he gave me that didn't include said
MCO.  then i get it home.  and it's not an MCO, but rather thie Sirius Video
box.  haul and a half i'd say. ;)

> With that board, you can import CCIR 601 video, apply both OpenGL imaging 
> operations (done in hardware) and 3D operations, and spit it back out in 
> CCIR 601 format again, without breaking a sweat, all the while in 10bit color
> (on the IO, internal operations can be done in 16bit).

sweet.  now if only i knew what that meant. :)

i'm not a video expert, or even a video amatuer for that matter.  i don't know
squat about video.  so maybe you can help me out and pass me some info.

also, i've got the box in my lap right now, and it doesn't have the serial
digital connectors, just the parallel ones (two in and one out)

i also have a question about the analog side.  specifically the NTSC/PAL
portion of it.  the composite output, is that the same as what is used by
televisions?  could i hack up a piece of coax to go from the sirius box to
a television?  also, what are the Y/C connectors?  s-video maybe?

> You are now required to make sure you get an extremely highspeed (at least 150
> megs/sec sustained) harddrive array if you are going to own a Sirius card.

now where to get one of those without breaking the already broken bank.

-brian

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