Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!lsuc!pesnta!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.video,net.works Subject: Windows for the common man Message-ID: <439@phri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 17:36:30 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.439 Posted: Mon Sep 2 17:36:30 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 05:04:36 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 31 Xref: utcs net.video:1481 net.works:1107 Everybody wants windows. People buy Suns (and other work stations) because they have windows. Using the "wm" package recently posted you can have windows on any ascii terminal. Mac's have windows. The ATT Unix PC has windows. Now you can have windows too, in the comfort of your own living room. I have in front of me an ad from Toshiba for their new Color TV. If you want to watch a broadcast program and your VCR at the same time, what do you do? What else; pop up a window, move it over to the corner of the screen, shrink it down to whatever size you want, and put your VCR output there! The "simulated picture" in the ad shows a full-screen window with a football game in it and a smaller window down in the corner with a movie running. All the ad says is that it's digital. It must have a frame grabber with adjustable x and y output scan for the second video input in order to be able to shrink the image (shrink mind you -- not crop). Plus a video mixer (big deal -- another op amp). The ad implies that you can make the second window any size and position you want, but they don't actually come out and say this. Certainly, the small window they have in the ad looks like a standard 4:3 aspect ratio. I have no idea what this costs, nor would I consider buying one for myself, but still, it *is* kinda nifty. I could even imagine times when it would be useful. Over-all, though, I think I'll file this one under "very impressive, but useless featureism". -- Roy Smith System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016