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From: keller@ficc.uu.net (Curtis Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: VCR hook-up to VGA monitor
Summary: h/w to convert NTSC to RGB and vice versa
Message-ID: <2942@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 30 Jan 89 18:49:33 GMT
References: <1109@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <1776UD047203@NDSUVM1> <2823@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <2823@ihuxy.ATT.COM>, vg55611@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Gopal) writes:
> In article <1776UD047203@NDSUVM1> UD047203@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
> >The VCR use composite analog signal, where the RGB are encode in one signal
> >(RS-170).  VGA standard are analog signal, but RGB are seperated.  Note that
> >VGA monitor has 15 pin out.  There is a way  to convert RGB signal to NTSC
> >signal (RS-170) , but as far as I know there is no easy way to convert from
> >NTSC signal to RGB signal.            Larry
> 

Data Translation (100 Locke Drive, Marlboro, MA 01752,
(617)-481-3700)) sells such a product "DT2869 Video
Decoder/Encoder" to convert NTSC or PAL into RGB and vice versa,
the ~$1000 board plugs into an IBM PC.  

Call them and ask for a catalog --- it has some nice stuff in it,
but I have not ordered anything so I can not vouch for them.
  
> Then I wonder how one converts images taken using a video camera
> into digital pictures (various formats .TGA, .GIF, .TIF etc.)
> 
Data Translation also sells "frame grabbers" to connect a video
camera to a PC or Mac.


Curtis Keller
Ferranti International Controls Corporation 
12808 W. Airport Blvd.   Sugar Land, Tx   77478
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