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Theo wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
I was rather surprised, somewhere round about 2005, when working on a
networked TV game show, to discover the on screen game graphics being
provided by a quite old Acorn RPC - with home made interface to feed it
into the system. Explanation was simple. It worked, and no security issues
leaving the gear in a studio. Unlike, say, a laptop.

If that was Millionaire, AIUI the format was sold as a bundle that
stipulated every clone of the show had to use the same graphics, so every
country used the same Risc PC system to generate the graphics.
(in the beginning, anyway - they probably upgraded at some point, maybe when
HD came along).

Never worked on Millionaire, but could well be the same company supplying
the graphics for that game show I mentioned. And can't remember the name
of. ;-)

Even an RPC can work in HD, though. They had more than one there.

This one has a digital output Viewfinder card, running above TV HD.

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