Apple Video System Card - Forcedperfect.net

The Apple Video System Card was sold by Apple in the mid nineties and adds video input ports to several Macintosh models allowing them to record video and still images from VCRs, camcorders, etc.

The card was also available as part of the Apple Video/TV System, which included a TV interface board to provide users the ability to watch TV on their Macintosh.

Any program which uses QuickTime can take advantage of these inputs. The most commonly used program is Apple Video Player bundled with Mac OS. It allows one to record video and watch TV (if the TV tuner board is installed).

The card is not very large and is quite sparsely populated.	Here you can see the back of the card.
The riser of RCA style jacks allow for stereo audio input along with composite video. A higher quality S-Video input is also available.	Here you can see the Philips SAA7196 video encoder and scaler chip.
This proprietary interface often labeled 'Video-in' on Apple motherboards is how the card connects to the host system.	This DAV (Digital Audio/Video) connector allows direct access to the video encoder. As far as I know, the only device to use this connect is the AVID video board bundled with some Macintosh models.
This text shows the Apple card number (820-0567-04) and the year 1994.

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