Re: TV freeze frame capture?

On Mar 12, 12:24 pm, "N.Morrow" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
As an experiment, I used my point and shoot digital camera to photograph
some scenes of an event off of the screen of a 32" LCD TV. The pictures came
out very well considering that I was hand-holding the camera. My TV does
have a 'freeze-frame' feature, but I got to wondering if there are any TV
models out there that allow a screen capture to be saved, eg. to a memory
card? Has anyone come across this feature?

-N.Morrow

If you have a fast enough computer you can install a tuner and record
the video.

I have about the minimum barely acceptable system, a 2.2 GHz Pentium
running XP Home and a Hauppauge 950 USB tuner, with a 22" Vizio TV as
the second monitor, driven by a Radeon 9250 PCI card. It will record
720p solidly but has occasional problems with 1080i. CPU usage runs
over 90% on 720, I have to shut off the monitoring program (and
everything else) for 1080. I should have bought a faster computer with
PCI-E slots.

The Hauppauge tuner handles weak signals and ghosting pretty well,
however their software is unimpressive. I use the free VLC player to
watch ATSC recordings and saved Youtube videos.

http://www.mythtv.org/

jsw
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