Producer: Amiga - Category: Other Hardware
Video digitizer, 1986, NewTek. DigiView is the colour video digitizer that made NewTek famous before the Video Toaster: a small box on the parallel port of the Amiga that captures a still image from a video camera or VCR in three passes through red, green and blue filters (a colour wheel was supplied for the black and white camera), producing 4096 colour HAM pictures.
| Years | 1986 to 1990 (DigiView, DigiView 2.0, DigiView Gold, DigiView 4.0) |
| Manufacturer | NewTek (US) |
| Compatibility | all Amigas with the parallel port |
| Input | composite video (RCA) from a camera or VCR, still images |
| Method | three-pass digitizing through red, green and blue filters (colour wheel supplied), or one pass in monochrome |
| Output | IFF images in 16 grey levels, 32 colours or 4096 colour HAM, up to 640 x 400 |
| Software | DigiView software with Digi-Paint |
| Price (1986) | US$199 |
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