URL for Play (Snappy)

[Dick Partos]

Could someone plese repost the URL for Play, the company that makes the
Snapy video capture device ? Thanks in advance.

-Dick

[George Holt]

Dick Partos (r.d.p...@larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: Could someone plese repost the URL for Play, the company that makes the

: Snapy video capture device ? Thanks in advance.

: -Dick

Check out SNAPPY at

Play Incorporated's World Wide Web Site!:

http://www.calweb.com/#tpabon/

Be sure to read about the high end product that Play is also coming out with.

There is another WEB page with some pictures grabbed by a guy using
snappy with his camcorder.

http://www.primenet.com/#rayn/snaps/

George

There is another WEB page with some pictures grabbed by a guy using
snappy with his camcorder.

http://www.primenet.com/#rayn/snaps/

George

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[Ted Pabon]

r.d.p...@larc.nasa.gov (Dick Partos) wrote:
>Could someone plese repost the URL for Play, the company that makes the
>Snapy video capture device ? Thanks in advance.
>
>-Dick
>

I'm a Software Developer at Play Inc. I currently have information about Play on my
personal web page at http://www.calweb.com/~tpabon and
ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/te/tedpabon. Play will have its own URL very soon.

Ted Pabon (tpa...@calweb.com)

[Richard Downs Jr]

George Holt <geo...@netcom.com> writes:

> Check out SNAPPY at
>
>Play Incorporated's World Wide Web Site!:
>
>http://www.calweb.com/#tpabon/
>
>Be sure to read about the high end product that Play is also coming out with.

I saw an add for "Snappy" and thought the price was a little low for it to
be a quality producing device. Is it good enough for home hobby use?
Just wondering before I buy. Thanks,
Richard

[Rob-L]

Richard Downs Jr (rdo...@delphi.com) wrote:

: I saw an add for "Snappy" and thought the price was a little low for it to

: be a quality producing device. Is it good enough for home hobby use?
: Just wondering before I buy. Thanks,

From what I've seen it is. But the resolution specs they give are from
interpolation. We're sorting this out in rec.video right now. It's not
going to capture a full frame - only 240 lines out of 525 are captured.
In a situation where you have a live camera/TV/moving-tape and the
subject is not moving, you can, they say, grab both odd and even fields
to get 480 of the 525 lines from a video signal. The number of pixels
per line is in question, but I can tell you it's at least 320 and maybe
as much as 1500! In any case, you'll get a fairly decent image. If you
are doing still-lifes, you can use field-averaging and interpolation to
get very good images.

[amigapc]

The Snappy is great for its price/performance ratio. Remembering that you
are digitizing off of an NTSC signal with the Snappy, the under-$200
price is quire reasonable.

I have had mine for over 2 weeks and am pleased with its performance.
Since I also have a flatbed scanner, I do not feel I have an inflated
view of the quality as compared to a non-video-based capture device.

Having used the DigiView video digitizer from NewTek (many of the people
with Play, Incorporated were former employees of NewTek) on my Commodore
Amiga, I have seen earlier versions of this technologies.

I would be glad to make some .GIFs available for download from my home
page in about a week if some of you are interested. The captures are
comparable with what I get be using the freeze on the TBC at work and
then doing a frame capture to disk with the Video Toaster. All this
happens in the Snappy for a lot less!

Rex Suba aka ami...@ionet.net
home page is "http://www.ionet.net/~amigapc/amigapc1.html"