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From: dtl@hpcuha.cup.hp.com (Dean Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for video grab board.
Message-ID: <33660002@hpcuha.cup.hp.com>
Date: 15 Jan 91 15:06:09 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.205914.13483@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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derhak@cs.utah.edu (Maxim Derhak) writes:

>I am looking for a device that wil grab (digitize) a video image quickly with
>reasonable clairity (I've tried the ATVISTA card, and it just doesn't cut it)
>and generatets 15 to 24 bit color.  I know that there must exist something
>that does this, but I don't know where to look.  I don't really want a display
>board since I am trying to process the images for printing.  Is there a cheap
>solution (less than the $3000 for a VISTA card) that captures video images
>to a image buffer than can be processed and displayed later?  It would be
>nice if it worked with composite, or SVHS.  Please mail responses to me since
>I don't read news all that often.

Please post your responses.  I DO read news, and I am also looking.  I 
want NTSC composite or s-video in (out would be nice also) and 
resolution like 640 x 480 x 256 colors minimum.  I'd like 
800 x 600 x 256 colors.  I would like the hardware to include some
software to get the captured image into a standard file format such
as PCX or GIF or TIFF or similar.  The card should have the ability 
to connect to the 'feature connector' on my SVGA card.

I would even be interested in a kit or schematics I could build
and shareware software for it.

Dean Lindsay