The goodie that Tektronix Inc had been saving up for Unix Expo turned out to be the XP300V X terminal, which incorporates the analgue video-in-a-window technology that the company originally demonstrated at the 1994 UniForum trade show. The XP300V displays 30 frame-per-second video from a video cassette recorder, laser disk player, or other video source in an X Window, and Tektronix sees it being used for video training, real-time process monitoring and corporate communications. It supports NTSC and PAL video signals and the window can be moved, resized or iconified, and can run simultaneously with multiple X Windows without degradation of X terminal performance. There is a stereo audio in-out port on the back, alongside composite video and SVideo ports. Video position, volume, brightness, hue, and other parameters can be controlled directly from a local X terminal client designed to appear like standard video controls. It uses a 33MHz 33120 R-series RISC from LSI Logic Corp with an integrated graphics co-processor for high performance X Window graphics. An analogue-to-digital converter and 16-bit frame buffer enable the XP300V to process analogue video signals without hurting X terminal performance. Available now, it costs $3,745 with 8Mb memory and a 14 1,024 by 768 display; 17 1,152 by 900 or 19 1,280 by 1,024 displays are also available for it.
