Television graphics hardware: Speed is the key: Up to 2 megabytes must be manipulated within 1/30 of a second

Unlike the systems that generate computer graphic images for movies and commercials ¿ and take hours to generate each frame ¿ the hardware used to generate or manipulate television images must, above ail else, be fast. Speed is the designer´s major criterion in selecting the microprocessors and memories that go into the systems.