Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!imagen!atari!neil
From: neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: VCR -> Atari color monitor
Message-ID: <929@atari.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 18:09:12 GMT
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In article <3278@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) writes:

> Does anyone know of a cable or interface box which allows one to use
> an Atari ST color monitor (SM 1224) to display VCR tapes, movies etc?

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here goes:

Supra is working on a frame grabber for the ST.  I saw a working prototype
of this at Antic.  Very impressive.  It works at 25 frames per second
(compared to one for the *m*g* which goes at 15).  In the demo I saw, it
would display an image coming from a video camera, so I assume a VCR would
work as well.

The frame grabber includes software for all kinds of special effects -- you
can superimpose computer images, or even have the computer control specific
colors (like, smear the blues but nothing else).  The frames can go into the
computer's memory, which gives something like 5 seconds of video stored in a
Mega 4.

According to Mark at Supra, it looks like this will be out Real Soon Now.
Hope to get one to play with myself.

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