Video Out to Video In converter

[Terry Lambert]

Jon Passki wrote:
> Imagine hooking up hardware to the video output of an antiquated
> system.  Through a mixture of magic, the end results is that output
> is displayed, for example, in a reduced display on a graphical
> desktop.  The quality may not be the best, the bandwidth for all this
> may be obscene, but I'm thinking more on the concepts now.

Yeah; it's a cool idea that you really don't have much of a
chance of ever getting implemented.  8-).

Basically, you want to take some digital data, like the contents
of a VGA card RAM, let the card turn it analog, and then take
the analog signal and turn it back into a digital copy of the
original screen RAM.

I get it, even though I would never do it that way; better to add
a US$80.00 screen-scraper card to the cost of the system.

Maybe you could consider a web-cam pointed at the monitor?  It'd
be cheaper than the alternatives... 8-) 8-).

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-- Terry