Hauppauge WinTV-Theater Model 495

WinTV's PCI board connects to your cable TV or to a TV antenna, and displays live TV in a resizable window. It does this by digitizing the live video (from either the built-in 125-channel cable TV tuner or the external video-input source) using high quality 4:2:2 video sampling. The digitized video is sent over the PCI bus into the memory of a VGA display adapter, a technique which makes the WinTV PCI board easy to install and gives a great looking TV picture!

WinTV’s motion video capture will make digital video movies on your PC’s hard disk. Create high impact multimedia presentations by adding snappy video images and digital movies to Powerpoint, Compel or multimedia authoring packages such as Authorware and Toolbook. And the professional quality still video image’s are compatible with all image editing software packages.

The WinTV-SnapShot program allows you to capture high resolution video images from TV or any external video source. Developed by Hauppauge in 1997, WinTV-SnapShot supports 1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480 and 320x240 pixel images in TIF, BMP. GIF and JPEG image formats. SnapShot is great for capturing images for desktop publishing or Web development.

Intercast Web pages add a new dimension to TV shows by allowing TV producers to add real-time information to their broadcasts. These pages are standard Internet Web pages, but instead of being sent over telephone lines, they’re sent with TV signals over the airwaves! For example, while broadcasting a sports event, the TV producer might send Intercast Web pages showing statistics plus the personal Web pages of participants in the event.

Features:

Live TV-in-a-window on VGA monitors from 640x480 to 1280x1024 in up to 16 million colors.
Built-in cable ready TV tuner: a 125-channel cable TV tuner with automatic channel scan.
Resize the WinTV window from icon size to full screen (or any size in between!)
Auxiliary audio/video input connects to video cameras, VCR's and camcorders.
Audio output can go to your sound card's Line-In connector or to self-powered speakers.
Capture professional quality 24-bit images with 4:2:2 digitizing. Image save formats supported: TIFF, BMP, PCX, GIF, TGA plus compressed JPEG in color or black/white at 8, 16 and 24-bits.
Videoconference over the Internet! The WinTV PCI's video digitizer is compatible with your favorite conferencing package such as: Microsoft NetMeeting, 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.
Create high impact presentations with 320x240 AVI clip capture with real time preview. Creates high quality AVI video’s in a YUV format.
Plug-and-Play is used to simplify the installation and setup of WinCast. There are no switches to set and no internal cables to connect!
VTPlus, the Professional Teletext software. Save Teletext pages to disk in graphics or text formats, or directly to your spreadsheet with VTPlus's active DDE links. Multiple pages can be displayed on your VGA screen, along with subpages. VtPlus operates in a resizable window along-side the WinTV application.