Crazy Monitor idea for old Home Computers

[Rob O'Donnell]

At 23:43 22/04/2005, Zane H. Healy wrote:


>Has anyone tried to plug an old Home computer into an Analog to Digital TV
>converter such as the Canopus ADVC-100, and then use a mondern computer
>with a Firewire port and video capture software as a monitor?

I use an ATI Radeon All In Wonder on the PC to do exactly this, for a BBC 
micro.  It's realtime video (I presume it's a hardware overlay) and despite 
the actual tv software being prone to crashing occasionally, seems to work 
quite well, and certainly saves on the desk space.

My wife's machine has an external USB2 connected tv capture box; whilst I 
haven't tried a micro on that, showing TV is definitely more jumpy when 
other things are happening on the PC, so I presume that is a software 
display and thus more demanding on the hardware.

Rob