From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 13 17:26:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01053 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:26:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01048 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01369; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609140026.RAA01369@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Eric L. Hernes" cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STB and NTSC output In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Sep 1996 07:52:16 CDT." <199609091252.HAA23645@jake.lodgenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:26:25 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I am interested on displaying movies on my PC however I want also to watch the output on my tv. For instance, if a couple of my buddies stop by we can all sit down and watch "FreeBSD Tv" 8) There are products out there that can do this however they tend to be pricey. The cheapo wants can only do 640x480 and the pricey vga to ntsc converters can do 1024x768 Tnks! Amancio >From The Desk Of "Eric L. Hernes" : > > howdy, > > We've been using STB's Channel 1/2/4 for a couple years here. > We've put up to 4 channel 4's in a machine for 16 vga ports. > > They work OK. The biggest problem is that the flicker filter is > pretty poor (maybe nonexistant) so you've gotta screen your > graphics pretty carefully. > > > eric. > > Amancio Hasty writes: > > > >Does anyone knows how well do the STB graphic cards which supports > >NTSC out work? > > > > Tnks, > > Amancio > > > > > > -- > erich@lodgenet.com > http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com > >