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How old school video digitizers worked (Patreon)

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2017-02-10 00:28:25
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How old school video digitizers worked

Support this channel on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/8bitguy1 Visit my website at: www.the8bitguy.com In this episode I take a look at how oldschool video digitizers like the "computer eyes" for the Commodore 64.

Comments

Jeremy Halvorsen

Overload us! I find all your videos fascinating. I love learning about this old tech that I missed.

Lorin Millsap

That was awesome. I remember drooling over some of the hardware in the CMD catalog. They made a video digitizer that could capture video, but only a couple seconds worth. I obviously never had one, but I would have been a neat novelty.

JF Caron

Great video, what would have been a practical application for that type of capture seing that the quality is very basic?

Dale Mahalko / Plawerth

Floyd-Steinburg error-diffusion dithering allows for nearly miraculous levels of performance with a ridiculously tiny palette. This algorithm is why the early Mac looked so good with only black and white. I made a bunch of examples of error diffusion for Wikipedia's list of color palettes a few years ago.... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monochrome_and_RGB_palettes" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monochrome_and_RGB_palettes</a>#Monochrome_.281-bit.29 If ComputerEyes were rewritten to do error diffusion, the images likely would look much better.

Anonymous

I love this video !!!

Anonymous

Love the old saloon piano music haha

8BitGuy1

I remember those.. I hope to show some Amiga stuff eventually. I don't have much, just an A500 and A1000. No neat peripherals like that, though.

Dark Azial

I love the increase in video drops. This is a fantastic change, Your videos are far from overwhelming or annoying. Keep it up, it helps you with the Youtube algorithm and spreads the channel. Long videos that are frequently uploaded definitely get you pushed to the front.

Sean Zoltek

I just starting to realize how much prolific you are now that you are full time, don't burn yourself too quick, I love your content :)

Anonymous

Nice video! It reminded me that I have one of those handheld scanners somewhere... BTW: I found this video to be a little bit dark at times? Am I the only one?

8BitGuy1
>>3896245

When you say dark, do you mean in the literally sense or in the psychology sense? In either case, can you point to a time section that you think is dark so I can have a look?

8BitGuy1
>>3894503

Well, I guess I have no choice but to slow down now as I have a cold... I can't do any video or audio recording like this..

Anonymous
>>3896245

I mean that literally, e.g. right at the start, around 0:11. Perhaps it's the shirt?

kuraz

Reminds me of my friend in school who had to pause back to the future on vhs to digitize it on his atari st