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Article #19518Comments on WatchIT-TV & SVGA cards
From: John Knutson
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 12:12
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 12:12
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I'm interested in hearing people's comments who have seen/used/purchased the "WatchIT-TV" board. For those who don't know, it's a card that basically allows you to watch television on your PC, through DOS or windows. In windows, you can have a TV window of (I believe) arbitrary size, and there are on screen controls for video and audio effects. It also allows you to do framegrabbing. I'd like to hear any comments, good or bad, about this product. My second question is about SVGA boards. I'm looking for something with a minimum of 1152x900 resolution with at least 256 colors in that mode. I'd like something that supports 24 bit color as well, but that's not really a necessity. I'm interested in something that will run MS windows, and probably 386BSD/X. (Yes, I realize that 386BSD only supports X for the Tseng 4000, but source IS available) I'd like to hear comments from people, good or bad, on cards that are capable of that resolution (doesn't have to be exact). Please, when responding, let me know what modes the card is capable of. The WatchIT-TV board says that it requires a "feature connector", so if you happen to know what this means (I don't), and know that your particular card has one, please let me know. Also, if anyone can confirm that the WatchIT-TV board requires that you run in only 640x480 graphics in windows (or not), I'd like to know that as well. Thanks for any information... (And to think I got flooded with mail about my bridge query, I can't *wait* to see what this is going to bring :-) -- John Knutson (johnk@cs.utexas.edu) "A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks." -- Lew Col
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news From: johnk@cs.utexas.edu (John Knutson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Comments on WatchIT-TV & SVGA cards Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:12:42 -0600 Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX Lines: 37 Distribution: world Message-ID: <lktg9qINNo99@latexo.cs.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: latexo.cs.utexas.edu