tim@j.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange) (10/02/86)
I am trying to help another here at Purdue to locate a video adapter board that will work in PC's and produce a RGB signal that conforms to the RS-170 standard. This is necessary so that the signal can be run through an encoder and be converted to NTSC signals for recording and transmitting by the educational video network on campus. The board also must be compatible with the CGA or EGA as the user wants to record PC Storyboard presentations. This software will work only on a CGA or EGA. The IBM CGA and EGA, and most clones, put out digital RGB signals and do not conform to the RS-170 standard though. I have heard from other sources that such boards cost around $3000, but no name brands were mentioned. If anybody can send me any specific information it would be much appreciated. -- Timothy Lange Purdue University Computing Center West Lafayette, IN 317-494-1787 extension 260 tim@j.cc.purdue.edu
tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh) (10/10/86)
I hooked up my VCR to my IBM-PC1 back in 1982 by doing the unbelievably
complicated procedure of running a coax cable from the video composite
OUTPUT on the CGA card to the video INPUT on the VCR. I did this for
two reasons:
1. I was too cheap to buy a color monitor and too cheap to
buy (and too stupid to build) a RF box to generate a
signal for my color TV, and I already owned a VCR.
2. I wanted to record the graphic output of a video game I
was building, for copyright purposes.
Of course, this isn't exactly what was requested (RGB) but it can
easily be used.