FPGA Amiga's and Genlocks

[psxphill]

Another curriosity, how could an Aros machine with a vga signal make an rgb signal?
Has anyone ever used a parallel port to make an rgb signal?

A lot of VGA cards can be programmed to output 15khz. To connect to an amiga monitor you might need to combine the H & V signals into composite sync.
 
It's not practical to use a parallel port to output rgb. You could probably do something, but the resolution and colour would be very limited. Timing would be difficult as you'd need to generate the sync as well, it's the type of thing you would do on an AVR chip not on a PC
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2MMMTw3SY

[psxphill]

576i (or 480i in North America) is less expensive and higher quality than 720p or 1080i? In which universe do you live?

My understanding of what he said is that for the same price analogue is better than digital, for digital to be better than analogue then you have to spend more money.
 
For live mixing you can probably pick up old analogue equipment cheaper than you can pick up new digital equipment. Part of that is that so few people want to do live mixing these days, because doing everything off line is cheaper while back in the day it was off line that was expensive. So old stuff is worthless and new stuff has to make a lot of money to recover the investment.
 
For off line then digital is better and so cheap that it's not worth considering analogue.