A video digitizer made by Philippe Borg in 1987, for a the french company called [[Jagot & Leon]]. The french name of the hardware is ''Digizaliseur Ara'' (seen on sticker), or ''Ara Digitaliseur d'images video'' (seen on screenshot).
ARA is said to be simply referring to the colourful parrot with same name (rather than being an abbreviation for something like analog recording apparatus or so).
=== 10bit Config Value ===
The Z80's 8bit databus doesn't allow to write 10bit values. The ARA is using a rather strange solution to overcome that problem. The mechanism to set Config=N is:
OUT [F9F5h],garbage, FOR I=1 to N, OUT [FAF5h],garbage, NEXT I
Whereas, the separate bits in "N" are:
0-1 Contrast
2-5 Brightness
* [[VIDI digitizer]] - another video digitizer (Rombo Productions)
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