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	Last week I was able to play around with a card called WinTV, which
basically allows you to watch tv on your PC monitor.  I will give my
impressions on it and then I have some questions for anyone who has used this
card or others like it (if there are any). 

	The card can take input from cable, a vcr, etc.  I think you can
also hook up an antennae to it, but I'm not sure.  I don't know if you
you can redirect the sound to a stereo either.  The television picture itself
was very nice and clean.  It didn't slow down the system at all and the system
didn't effect the image refresh either. 

	The tv window can be anything from a small window to the full screen.
If you resized the window and the picture looks distorted (i.e. too wide or
too tall) there is a menu choice which will automatically adjust the window to
the closest size that will make the image look "normal".  There are volume
control buttons (and mute).  A very nice feature is the ability to freeze an
image on the screen and save it to a file (normally as a .BMP file).  This
image can now become your windows background or you can bring it into your
favorite paint program and have some fun.  There were a lot of other software
features, but I didn't get to play with them.

	The card is priced around $350 (I think) and it includes the winTV
software for Windows.  

	Now,  has anybody else used this card that has some comments on it?
I admit I only played around with it for a few minutes so I didn't get to test
a lot of the features it had.

	Are there any other cards out there that can display TV or VCR
signals on a PC (i.e. VideoBlaster?)?  

	Is there going to be a better/newer version out anytime soon?

thanks,
Rob
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