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From: krempel@gamera.cns.syr.edu (Henry B.J. Krempel)
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Subject: Re: Video Question
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Date: 31 Jan 89 11:42:19 GMT
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>One of our users wants to use a Sun with a video disc player (or some
>other type of video input).  The Sun will control the player and display
>images (or full-motion video) on the screen in a window with
>computer-generated text overlayed.

To do this in a windowing environment, Parallax sells a video board that
presents full motiuon video in a NeWS environment.  The Video is a
first-class NeWS object, and can be mixed with arbitrary poeces of
PostScript (which incledes, of course, text, windows and graphics).

The board set occupies 4 physical slots, so you will need a 160 or a 260
model (a 110 with a VME bus extender also works). It costs around $10K.
I don't have the phone number handy,  but one email address I have is:

parallax!taylor@sun.com (internet)
sun!parallax!taylor	(uunet, I think)

The software for this system (Pnews) includes code to control a video
disk. If you don't have the money for the parallax solution,  you might be
able to set up something with a separate video monitor.  Controlling the
disk wouldn't be too hard,  a number of them come with serial line
interfaces,  and you might be able to hook up some sort of video character
generator.