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The TV Max has these great features:
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Live TV-in-a-window on VGA monitors from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in up to
16 million colors.
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Built-in cable ready TV tuner: a 125-channel cable TV tuner with automatic
channel scan.
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Resize the Win/TV window from 160 by 120 to full screen (or any size in
between!)
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Auxiliary video input connects to video cameras, VCR's and camcorders,
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Audio output can go to your sound card's Line-In connector or to self-powered
speakers.
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Capture professional quality 24-bit images with 4:2:2 digitizing. Save
images as BMP files at 8, 16 and 24-bits.
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The Face to Face and TV Max's video digitizer is compatible with your favorite
conferencing package such as: CU-SeeMe, Smith Micro's AudioVision, VDOnet,
Connectix VideoPhone, Vocaltec's IPhone, Vivo and lots more. Simply add
a video camera and one of these software packages to video conference over
the phone lines or the internet.
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Create high impact presentations with 320x240 AVI clip capture with real
time preview. Creates high quality AVI video’s in a YUV format.
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Plug-and-Play is used to simplify the installation and setup of the TV
Max. There are no switches to set and no internal cables to connect!
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Technical Overview of the TV Max:
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| The TV Max is a digital video in-lay board with TV, image and
clip capture. A bus-master PCI slot is required, plus a VGA card with DirectDraw
2.0 (or later) and Windows 95. In addition to displaying live video in
a window, individual video images and video clips can be digitized and
stored to disk.
Live video is digitized from either the built-in 125-channel cable TV
tuner or an external video-input source using high quality 4:2:2 video
sampling. The digitized video is sent over the PCI bus in your PC into
the memory of your VGA display adapter. This allows the digitized video
to move efficiently, and takes a fraction of the available bandwidth of
the PCI bus. |
Your PC’s VGA graphics adapter needs Windows 95 DirectDraw
support. VGA cards tested for compatibility with the TV Max are:
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S3 Trio64V+,Trio32/64, Vision968 and ViRGE
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Cirrus Logic 5446
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Matrox Millenium and Mystique
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Hercules Dynamite 128 (and other ET6000 based VGA cards)
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ATI Mach64 and Rage series of graphics display adapters.
Your PC must be a Pentium-100 or faster compatible computer with a free
PCI slot. |
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Hardware Specifications:
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| General specifications |
| Video digitized using YUV 4:2:2 color format at 60 fields per second
(50 fps in PAL.) Maximum digitized image size: 640x480 for NTSC video sources,
758x576 for PAL. |
| Memory segment and interrupts |
| Requires one interrupt and a memory segment, which are automatically
assigned by Windows 95 Plug-and-Play setup. Memory segment can be manually
adjusted by the user. |
| VGA Compatibility |
| The Face to Face and TV Max works with many PCI VGA cards in 640x480,
800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 with vertical refresh rates up to 100Hz. Supports
color modes of 256 colors up to 16 million colors. Does not require connections
to the VGA card, either internal or external. Requires that the VGA card
have an updated DirectDraw driver. |
| Video Clip Capture |
| Save continuous video at 320x240 at up to 30 frames per second. (Actual
save capability is determined by the speed of the PC and the hard disk
drive.) Creates Microsoft Video for Windows compatible AVI files in an
uncompressed YUV format.
For use with video conferencing applications such as VDOnet's VDOPhone,
VocalTec's IPhone, CU-SeeMe, Connectix VideoPhone, Smith Micro's AudioVision,
Vivo, etc., the frame rate is set by the video conferencing application
and the video format used for digitizing. See chart below for digitizing
formats supported and maximum frame rates. |
| Audio output |
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TV Max
Unamplified "line-out." Output is through 1/8" female stereo jack.
Line-out is compatible with "line-in" on most 8 and 16-bit sound cards
and stereo systems or amplified speakers. |
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TV Max Television Application Specifications:
 
Pop Up menus - source select, channel select, image adjust (contrast,
brightness, saturation, hue), options (always-on-top, Hide Control Panel,
Remote control etc.), Save Still As.
File save - BMP. in 8 and 24-bit b/w or color. Saved image is
current window size up to Maximum image size.
Source Select - Tuner, up-channel, down-channel, Video-in, S-Video.
Audio Adjust - Volume up, volume down is controlled by sound
card or amplified speakers.
Channel Selector - Automatic channel scan, source select.
Software requirements -Windows 95.
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