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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!nott-cs!lut.ac.uk!lssc
- From: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: TV Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.115420.27066@lut.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk (Simon C++)
- Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
- References: <1992Nov3.152048.9335@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <Bxtutn.D1z@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 11:54:20 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <Bxtutn.D1z@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@dakota.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >
- >Hi, netters/couch-potatoes!
- >
- >I'm using Win/TV from Hauppauge Computer Works, $439 from PC Connect.
- >It shows a clear picture in any Windows window with resolutions up to
- >1024x768 (interlaced, 800x600 and 640x480 non-interlaced). Your VGA card
- >must have a feature-connector to use Win/TV.
- >
- >It takes the output from your VGA card from the feature connector,
- >super-imposes the TV image onto the computer-generated Windows-screen and
- >sends the output directly to the monitor. As far as the computer is
- >concerned the Win/TV window (fully resizable - it will even continue to
- >display a TV picure as an icon) is just another window (static).
- >
- >In fact, if you do a screen capture to grab the TV window, all you get is
- >a pink window where your TV image is. This is because the Win/TV board
- >uses the same technology that let's your local weather-man stand in front
- >of the weather-map. If you do want to grab the picture Win/TV has a
- >freeze-frame button.
- >
- >Espen Zachrisen
- >Indiana University
- >ezachris@arapahoe.ucs.indiana.edu
-
- Does this board use a C&T chipset ? There are several boards available in the
- UK which use the C&T set. I have used one, called ELViS, which comes in two
- versions. The older version of the C&T chip does not have sqare pixel
- representation of the video, so the image seem slightly elongated in the
- vertical. The second version if fine, and uses a Philips ADC and DAC system.
-
- Overall I was very impressed, and the UK price is about #500 - #700 depending
- on the board version. All you need to do is think of an application for it.
-
-
- Regards,
- Simon.
-
-