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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: Color Frame Grabber/NTSC Video Output cards for the Mac ?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 03:18:50 GMT
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In article <1990Dec7.000426.28242@cs.ubc.ca> Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca (Sundar)
writes:
>If anybody is using cards for real time color frame grabbing from an NTSC
>VCR, and/or using a card to send NTSC video from the Mac back to the VCR
>(with/without genlocking), I would be very grateful for information on
>their configuration, prices, praise, gripes etc. I understand that there
>are cards now that combine both frame grabbing and video output functions
>on one board. Even if you are not a user, but have info on this area, your
>input will be a big help.
 
Sundar (and anyone else who is interested in computer<->video)...
                                                                
There is a group called comp.ivideodisc (=interactive video), which is probably
a good place to ask this question (I've crossposted this reply). The shop I'm 
working at uses PC-based systems, alas, so I have no personal experience. 
However, I can point you to at least one low-end solution:
                                         ^^^^^^^
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MAC II TO NTSC COLOR VIDEO
Computervideo's NTSC Encoder allows the user to videotape any presentation
created on the Mac II and interface to a TV/monitor or video projector...
Compatible with Apple and most 8 and 24 bit 640x480 video cards...
Retail $395 (!)  
Computervideo, 215 Salem St., Suite 5, Woburn MA 01801  617-937-0888

(from ad, MacWeek, 12.4.90, p. 56)
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The usual disclaimer, and all that...

--Kathy

P.S. My pointer to comp.ivideodisc should NOT be interpreted as a suggestion 
that comp.sys.mac.hardware was an inappropriate place for this posting.  :-)


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