Amiga Hardware DatabaseManufacturer Wiegand Video-Daten-Systeme, Germany | Date 1990 | Amiga any Amiga | Interface serial port |
- TV Data Decoder
- external receiver for Channel VIDEODAT, a proprietary data transmission protocol for the vertical blanking interval of a PAL TV program
- data rates of up to 15 kBit/s
- supports multiple data streams with varying data rates (e.g. for software files or text) at the same time
- transmission on the german TV channel Pro7, later Vox
- only possible for TV channels without Teletext, as this uses blanking interval as well
- software allows individual pre-selection of data to be stored, or all data
- decoder requires a Composite video signal (Cinch connector), provided by cable, satellite or terrestrial receivers
- connects to serial port
- integrated power supply
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