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q950
Junior Member
USA
135 Posts |
 Posted - 01 Jul 2003 : 16:16:15
Just wanted to share my latest and coolest ever haul from ebay. It is a totally complete radius Videovision Telecast. It is so badass, it is complete, even down to the original packaging and manuals. It was Radius's top of the line video input an output system, I was told it originally cost 15 large, and I only paid 30 bucks plus shipping for it. It works great in my quadra 950 and produces really good video. The reason I got it is actually kind of sad, I wanted something to use to watch TV on my quadra and decided to go all the way and get the telecast instead of a SpigotAV card. I dont have pics of my own telecast but there is an auction on ebay that shows one off pretty well. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3033351347&category=21166&rd=1 Any ideas on what I can use it for, except for watching TV of course. Logan |
G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jul 2003 : 16:35:32
Cool beastie! Sweet price!Now all you need is a UHF RF modulator and an amp. Then you could become channel 68 KMLA -- the 68k Home Shopping channel. With a bit of legal wrangling you could probably force your local cable system to carry your channel under the FCC's "must carry" rules. G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jul 2003 : 17:36:25
Sounds to me what your getting is the PCI version not the NUBUS version. I have the PCi version, works on the 7500/8500 PCI type machines as listed in the ebay link you provided. The nubus videovisiom was a one card solution I thaught while the pci version had a seperate SP board that plugged into the huge cable going to the telecast box.
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q950
Junior Member
USA
135 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jul 2003 : 17:50:03
Oops, I think the guy in the ebay auction said it would work in some computers that are PCI but I think he actually meant to list some Nubus machines, I am not really sure. But what I got was the nubus setup, complete with the regular radius videovision card and the telecast studio daughtercard. Without the daughtercard, it would work as a videovision which works with a special box that only accepts RCA video and sound. But as it is now, the nubus setup, the telecast hooks up through three connectors using both cards. It is kindof neat, because there is a little jumper thing that joins the two cards together at the top. Also, to get the VV to work as a telecast, you had to upgrade the ROM on the board, which mine had done to it. I will post some pictures later.Logan
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cinemafia
Guerrilla Recon Leader
USA
2965 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jul 2003 : 22:08:49
Hell yeah! $50...wow...I am impressed.  666th poster and 666th thread-creator
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jul 2003 : 02:16:26
The price is cheap, I am sure I spent $125 for my PCI VV+Telecast setup. that was 2 years ago.. prices keep dropping (mine was new in the box)
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jul 2003 : 19:53:01
Jeez, that beast looks like it must have costs thousands of greenbacks in it's time...--------------------
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Unknown_K
Full Member
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jul 2003 : 04:37:39
$15,000 for the full setup when it was originally offered. The videovision is tempermental in its setup, basically you need a dedicated machine without alot of uneeded apps and plugins.
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