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Digitizing VGA?

Posted by michael on from the press-printscrn-really-fast dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:It'd be nice to know the application... by r_weaver · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.