Digitizing VGA?

mvidal01 writes: "I have been looking for hardware to digitize the VGA output of a PC. After searching for a long time I have found a few solutions but nothing really great. If possible I would like to avoid converting the VGA signal to NTSC or PAL video with a scan converter because the quality tends to suck. So how about it Slashdot readers. Anyone know of hardware that will allow hires VGA to be digitized?"

Comments

did you try this site?

[Anonymous Coward]

try doing your own research next time

Re:It'd be nice to know the application...

[r_weaver]

You didn't mention what hardware you're running on, but if it's PC type hardware, there's already a plug-in card that does what you want:

http://www.dakota-us.com/us/overview.cfm?prodID=37

It's not cheap at $715, but doing your own customer hardware is not that cheap either.

This may even be a solution to the original poster's original question -- this card is supposed to send text and graphics over the LAN/modem connection, so perhaps there's some way to capture that data.

I don't understand

[Anonymous Coward]

Usually with these "ask slashdot" things the person asks a hyper-specific question which someone posts about two comments in an amazing product that does 100% exactly what they were looking for, like an astounding coincidence that this very item was being made to fix your exact problem and they just happened to read Slashdot five seconds after the story was posted and had a direct link to the 'where to buy' page from the manufacturer.

That hasn't happened this time, how come?

Re:Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

cost. digital signals are expensive to decode at 300MB/sec (thats 300 megabytes or 2400megabits or 2.4Gbps). Thats faster than any gigabit ethernet. and gigabit ethernet costs $$$ while your video card and monitor sell for around 100 bucks each.
some LCDs do support digital input but they cost $$$$.