And this site says that mixer demodulated before mixes and remodulated after them:
http://www.tvnt.net/forum/ntsc-pal-secam-appel-a-temoins-pas-aux-bonimenteurs-t3890-90.html On 12/12/2011 8:30 PM, Mark Schubin wrote:
I can't easily date it either, but my suspicion is circa 1980, which is pretty late.TTFN, Mark On 12/12/2011 8:10 PM, Olivier Houot wrote:Mark shubin wrote:Remember: this was the ANALOG era. A sync generator could occupy the better part of a room. PAL mixers and then transcoding was MUCH easier!PAL mixers would indeed have been easier than component. As an intermediate solution, you had SECAM mixers (here Thomson TTV 5000): http://images.imagehotel.net/?hll7s4o2io.jpg (thanks to "video-33" for providing the link on a forum) The dimensions are 430 x 399 x 177 mm. The text mentions the presence of a handle to carry it easily. So this item at least did not occupy the better part of a room. But i don't know when it was available for the first time (one can see it already contains integrated circuits). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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