Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!bigtex!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MicroTV for your MacII ($395) Message-ID: <708@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 89 15:18:39 GMT References: <20700@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <7285@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho Lines: 32 In article <7285@microsoft.UUCP> t-robje@microsoft.UUCP (Rob Jellinghaus) writes: >In article <20700@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >>Bushnell (of Atari fame) will soon be selling a real-time video card >>that includes a complete 109channel tv. The TV plays (runs) under >>multifinder. So now I can watch Star Trek while I program :) > >It does look impressive, if not for the fact that the biggest window you >can get out of the thing is DA-sized. (At least, that's the interpretation >I put on the article with its accompanying picture.) You can't have a full- >screen window showing your TV program; the best you can do is a small >window, probably about 128 x 128 pixels. Too bad... just when I thought >I'd be able to use my II as a TV... > >If anyone knows any differently, please let me know! I'd like to buy it >if it were actually useful as a TV, rather than just a small hack. (I mean, >who wants to really watch a 5" TV?) Who wants to use Mac II as a TV? That would be a very expensive TV! The impression I get is that this isn't for 'really watching,' but more for having on in the background so you can keep up on the baseball game (or whatever) while you're doing something else (writing in Word, for example). (Hey!! There's a good idea. This thing might be useful for sportswriters and reviewers. They could watch and write all on their Mac screen.) -- Geoff Allen - WINCO Computer Process Engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...{uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff | Disclaimer: WINCO doesn't believe in Macs, ...ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff | so of course these are my own views.