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From: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Loren Heisey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: TV on a PC screen
Message-ID: <31580001@hpcvra.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 25 Jan 91 16:35:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.150340.15381@qtnet.uucp>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>We are currently looking for some mechanism of displaying television
>pictures on a PC monitor that is also displaying output from the PC.
>Ideally we would like to have picture-in-picture with the TV signals
>being mixed with the normal PC graphics. Failing that, some switching
>mechanism from the PC is desired. The secondary input can be either TV
>(PAL A) or Video (and audio).
>
>Anyone out there know of any boards that can plug into a PC to achieve
>something like this?
>
>Any pointers would be appreciated.

There are three boards which allow TV motion video to be displayed on a
PC. M-Motion Video Adapter/A by IBM, Video Windows by New Media Graphics
Corp, and DVA-4000 by VideoLogic Inc. Check out PC Magazine July 1990
issue pages 172-173 for some information on the boards.

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