I love how Quantel went all out and didn't stop until they engineered a system that realized their vision. The cost was high but the effort produced excellent results.

Beautiful boards 🤗👍

Fascinating video. I spent a lot of lunchtimes at school using the paintbox. The input felt very effective - for the time and it really felt natural to use. Not sure what model it was, but it had the large tablet, rather than the small express one. This was circa 95. How the school managed to get one is, I assume, because the school wasn't far from the company's office in Newbury.

with to paintboxes you can animate two cutouts over livevideo - or you should plug the video output from dpb back in to the video input from paintbox express - and you should get a nice video delay when you move a cutout over live video. actually you don’t need that paintbox express for that. you can input the video directly from dpb output. ;)

Having worked with digital broadcast devices in the early 90’s you quickly forget how much electronics was required for the analogue video IO. I remember when Rec 601 digital IO devices started to appear and overnight the IO stage was replaced by a single Sony SBX1601 which in return was more unreliable than boards covered in analogue IO and being taught to smash top with a hammer and screwdriver and removing the chip one pin at a time.

Brilliant.

Holy you deserve more praise and subs and ad revenue. Neich topics I guess

is the chip you are looking for something like the AD723ARUZ IUV decoder chip if so DIGIKEY Electronics have them.

So glad you got the RGB input up and working! What do you think is wrong with the composite input? Is it just black, or does it just look like bad video?

At 12:17 you say that the Chroma Gain, Gain, and Black Level knobs on the front of the machine don't affect the video. Even when those knobs are working, do they affect both the Composite and RGB inputs, or maybe only the Composite input? Do they affect the ADC card, or the Decoder card?

Nice getting to this stage, well done! - I assume you would need a 15Khz RGB video signal? An Amiga would be great for that. iirc Amiga have both H/v sync and c-sync out of the box. Perhaps this was mentioned in the video, but I missed it you mentioned digital video, does the DPB support SDI or some other cool video interface I'm not aware of? I work in IT, but in a broadcast environment but used Scala a lot on my Amiga 4k..