Following up its OEM agreement with DEC (CI No 1,485), RasterOps Corp has introduced a first 24-bit live video-in-a-window capability for the Sun Microsystems Sparcstation line: the Picture-in-Picture Video Option is a card installed directly onto RasterOps’ Sparc Card TC True Color 24-bit colour SBus display board and the two together provide users with the ability to work with over 16.8m colours simultaneously to produce photographic quality images, and import and capture live video images for applications such as desktop publishing, colour pre-press, image processing, multimedia and interactive training; the board provides two frame buffers – a 24-bit and a 1-bit buffer and the Picture in Picture option puts up a live video window that can be placed anywhere on the screen and run simultaneously with other applications; the Sparc Card TC is a double-size SBus card which plugs into two of the Sparcstation SBus slots and the Video Option is a daughter board that supports inputs of NTSC and PAL signals in composite, S-Video and RGB/Sync formats; the TC costs $5,000 and the option $2,000.
