Re: tlug: Re: video capture

[Jason Molenda <crash@example.com>]

> On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 12:14:49PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > By the way, I'm in the market for video camera.  My wife, I was a bit
> > surprised to find, is all in favor of getting the most advanced
> > features (trading off for smaller screen size, heavier, etc where
> > possible).  So I can go out and get myself one with digital video out.


Ouch, cho-expensive, dude!!


On Wed, Oct 29, 1997 at 01:02:53PM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote:

> I am a big fan of Firewire (aka IEEE-1394) for this application...
> all of the big boys have DV cameras that speak it.  Adaptec and TI
> produce host adapters (and next generation Intel motherboards will
> include it).  


A lot of the press releases I've seen (I must admit that I don't pay
close attention to these) make it sound like they only grab an image at
a time.  It doesn't sound like you could say 'gimmie that 10 minutes of
video' and come back and hour later to find all your disk space full.  :-)
Maybe I just wasn't reading closely enough.


J
Next TLUG meeting is Saturday Dec. 13, 1997  (possibly Nov. 13?)
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