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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2036.0. "FrameGrabber" by LEDS::ACCIARDI (Man Dies Laughing - Film at 11:00) Mon Dec 26 1988 03:06

    
    I'm damned if I could find where this topic left off, so I guess
    I'll start a new topic...
    
    Someone was inquiring about frame grabbers a while bac .  These
    devices are supposed to digitize a live external video image to your
    Amiga's memory in real time.
    
    Harv Laser (senior Chairman of the AmigaZone on PLINK) has posted
    an image that he grabbed from his VCR with PP&S's FrameGrabber.
    The image is a 320 x 400 HAM shot (sounds dirty, huh?) of a CNN
    news anchorman.  I think you'll agree that the results are astonishing.
    Actually, I've seen better examples of PP&S's box, but this is the
    only image in my possession for now...  By the way, the street price
    for this box is around $500.
    
    The image was captured in 1/30 of a second and some titles were
    added with PhotonPaint from MicroIllusions.
    
    The file is called FGRABPIC.ARC and has been temporarily placed
    in NORSE""::AMIGA:[UPLOAD].  I've suggested that Martin move it
    over to the GRAPHICS section at his convenience.  The file format
    is 128 byte fixed length records, suitable for XMODEM downloading.
    
    
    Note:  I don't own a PP&S FrameGrabber, and this isn't a product
           endorsement, but the possiblities for this type of device
           seem staggering.  And the legal implications seem staggering
           also.  How will copyrighted material be handled?  
                                
    Ed.

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2036.1	TROI	MTWAIN::MACDONALD	WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25	`Tue Dec 27 1988 13:09`	3
	You might like to look at a picture of Deanna Troi which I took off my VCR. Rather impressive ... MTWAIN::USER::[MACDONALD.IFF]TROI.IFF