IBM AC453A manual Introduction

CHAPTER 2: Introduction

2. Introduction

The Computertop TV-III card is a full-motion video display card with a television tuner and audio- processing circuitry. It allows a live video window from cable or broadcast television to be merged with VGA graphics on a single display monitor. An external image source from a video cassette recorder (VCR), laser disk player, or camcorder is also supported. The Computertop TV-III contains an on- card audio power amplifier sufficient to drive headphones or a set of unpowered external speakers.

The Card and an AT® compatible computer running Windows™ 3.1 and an external VGA display make up a full-motion multimedia presentation system.

The Computertop TV-III card gives you simultaneous viewing of one live television source in a window and running application programs such as spreadsheets, word processors, or desktop publishing in other windows. The hardware requires minimal processor bandwidth, so programs run at full speed even while the live-motion window is displayed.

You can use the system hard disk to store snapshots of live images on the screen. Once saved, the images can be imported into a variety of desktop-publishing or image- processing programs for further manipulation.

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