Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 01:16:23 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Lamb.net> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone knows this card ? Message-ID: <199612290916.BAA04881@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 00:18:17 PST." <3.0.32.19961229001801.00698a00@Gatekeeper-3.Lamb.net>
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Actually, it does have two Philip chipsets --- got no idea what they are doing there. Coming to thing about it the philip chips are probably for audio or video out. Hmmm... Now , I am a bit curious . If anyone gets hold of the Philip parts numbers please let me know. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Ulf Zimmermann : > I just took the time and looked at the website from Hauppauge. This are > certainly not the cards anymore I worked, so I said is not valid ;-| > > Ulf. > > At 01:07 PM 12/28/96 -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > >At 08:39 PM 12/28/96 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>today at a localstore I found a PCI frame grabber based (from the > >>picture on the box) on the Bt848. The board is called WinTV/PC > >>model 406 from Hauppauge and seems to have info available on the > >>net at > >> > >> http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/index.htm > >> > >>(this is the model which does not support an optional MPEG board, the > >>picture is at http://www.hauppauge.com/hcw/html/wc_data.htm#Overview) > >> > >>Anyone knows something about this board ? > >> > >>For the records, the board, with a built-in tuner and teletext > >>decoder -- unless it is decoded in software! -- is sold for Itl. > >>403.000 incl.VAT. -- approx US$250; on the same shelf there is a > >>Snappy for approx US$330, so I think it might be found a bit cheaper > >>than this. > > > >That board is based on a chipset from Chips&Technology with additional > >chips from Phillips connected with a I2C bus. I once programmed stuff for > >boards like these. Wrote for example a software decoder for the Videotext. > >The last revision of the boards I know, didn't worked good with digital > >mix, as it didn't had fast enough ADC stuff for this. Because of this most > >boards are done with an analog mixing, which results in a bad quality. > > > >> > >>Amancio, any resemblance with the Intel board you have ? > >> > >> Luigi > >>-----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > >>Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > >>email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > >>tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > >>fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > >>_____________________________|______________________________________ > >> > > > >Ulf. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------- > >Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) > >1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 > >Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073 > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Alameda Networks, Inc. | Ulf Zimmermann (ulf@Alameda.net) > 1525 Pacific Avenue | Phone: (510)769-2936 > Alameda, CA 94501 | Fax : (510)521-5073
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