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Comment by hard_times

5 days ago

is there no vendor offering HDMI-in or Display Port-in?

It always used to baffle me that there wasn't support for this (or the historic equivalent) 20 years ago.

  • 20 years ago it would have been prohibitively expensive.

    • 20 years ago (well, 25) it was actually more common than it is now - many computers in the late 90's to early 2000's came with video capture cards built in. The Sony VIAO for example, or some "multimedia" machines. The Hauppage WinTV cards and similar knockoffs were popular as well. I remember working on the Linux kernel modules/drivers for these types of cards (I want to say that the project was called "Video4Linux" or similar).

      Being able to "watch TV" on your computer used to be a somewhat popular request from well-to-do consumers, and as DVD's came out, people started wanting to digitize their VHS tapes, and video capture cards (the same concept as what the article is doing) allowed that.

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