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leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) wrote the following: 
> here comes the technical info about the new moviegrabber(tm)
> PC-Hurricane(tm).
> 
> It is a hicolor color YUV (4:1:1) realtime video movie digitizer which
> can store 25 frames/sec(PAL) or 30 frames/sec(NTSC)  into Expanded Memory.
> 
> It has support for ET4000 Hicolor and true color boards.
> 
> The software is a userfriendly DOS software, which displays the
> incoming video signal in almost realtime (about 5-10 frames/sec) on a
> ET4000 Hicolor board in 32768 colors/pixel.
> This is okay for video purposes, cause the noise inside a video movie
> almost does already the dithering to a true color quality.(simualar to
> 24 bit quality)
> 
> [Some text deleted]
>
> It plays in slow motion the YUV coded fields to the SVGA card via the
> ISA bus. This gives a real slow motion Hicolor digital movie out of
> the RAM !

Sounds like a great product, but...

Your definition of "almost realtime" and "slow motion" are different from mine... I'd say that 20 frames per second is "almost realtime", and 5-10 frames per second is "slow motion".

Frank.


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