engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) (01/05/88)
Having taken a fair amount of flak from several people who seem to think me
stupid because some site truncated my messaged, I will ignore them and ask
again. Does anyone know of a cable or interface box which allows one to use
an Atari ST color monitor (SM 1224) to display VCR tapes, movies etc? It
seems that there should be such a beast, and Allan Pratt agreed with me, but
neither of us has yet found one. Essentially, it would have to allow
composite output to be displayed on an RGB screen, something which should be
possible. This would allow you to have a VCR, which has a tuner and all
that sort of TV stuff built in, with your computer monitor, which lacks all
the TV stuff but can show a decent picture. Please send all information to
me and I will summarize to the net.
Thanks - Adam
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Adam C. Engst engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
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"If it's not interactive fiction, it's not fun."neil@atari.UUCP (Neil Harris) (01/06/88)
In article <3278@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) writes: > Does anyone know of a cable or interface box which allows one to use > an Atari ST color monitor (SM 1224) to display VCR tapes, movies etc? Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here goes: Supra is working on a frame grabber for the ST. I saw a working prototype of this at Antic. Very impressive. It works at 25 frames per second (compared to one for the *m*g* which goes at 15). In the demo I saw, it would display an image coming from a video camera, so I assume a VCR would work as well. The frame grabber includes software for all kinds of special effects -- you can superimpose computer images, or even have the computer control specific colors (like, smear the blues but nothing else). The frames can go into the computer's memory, which gives something like 5 seconds of video stored in a Mega 4. According to Mark at Supra, it looks like this will be out Real Soon Now. Hope to get one to play with myself. -- --->Neil Harris, Director of Marketing Communications, Atari Corporation UUCP: ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil GEnie: NHARRIS/ WELL: neil / BIX: neilharris / Delphi: NEILHARRIS CIS: 70007,1135 / Atari BBS 408-745-5308 / Usually the OFFICIAL Atari opinion