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From: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A neat new idea?
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.131916.10354@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 90 13:19:16 GMT
References: <8269@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
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In article <8269@nigel.udel.EDU> SGHYATT%UALR.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Steve Hyatt) writes:
>[I doubt I need a line eater since I'm on bitnet but... who knows?]
Hahahahahahaha........
>
>To You AMIGA Gurus Everywhere,
>   While thumbing through the campus MAC nuts' fall 89-APDAlog (Information
>Catalog for Apple Programmers and Developers, pg 13-14), I noticed a article
>about a new product for the big apple. Its an onboard TV that fits in the
>corner of the MAC II screen (the 8 color monitor). NOW the reason I'm making
>such a big deal of this is:
>1) Has anyone else seen said article and thought of building a card for the AMY
Building a such a thing is way beyond my capabilities, but read on....
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>2) Is it feasible? (Surely the AMIGA can do it! ;
Probably.             )
>3) Would not this be the easiest way to digitize something from TV/VCR using a
>   simple screen grabbing program?
Yes. I'm using a Live!2000 to grab incoming video. After a year of tuning,
I'm getting reasonably good results. It's not in the same class in terms of
image quality as a framegrabber, but it captures _moving_ video. I own an
KV1311CR Sony monitor, and am using the video out to grab television images.
A VCR or camera works great too. 

The live! pretty much takes over the machine when it is running, but I can't
help but wonder if it would be possible to have a program poll the live and
open a small window, with a B&W image. This would give you about the same
effect as the Mac card. Things would probably slow down a bit, but it might
work. A-squared supplies sample code for accessing their Live.library, and
appears to more than willing to help from my conversations with them on the
phone. 

Incidentally, I'll have a brief overview of their upcoming software update
for the Live! in a few days. One big addition is a 640x400 mode. 

Just count me as a satisfied customer. 

--hal

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>Two of the products suggested for the MAC version were security applications,
>and in-house teleconferenceing.I haven't seen the product first hand but the
>pictures in the article showed screen shots of the ESPN logo & NBC NEWS TODAY.
>I'd love to sit at my terminal writing C code, using a terminal program to
>download, AND watching Gilligans Island reruns... Or the new AMIGA ads for that
>matter!
>
>What do YOU think?
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