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The Alaris QuickVideo Transport is the only parallelport device we tested that does not apply MPEG compression to incoming video; instead, it uses a two-step capture/compress method. In other words, the system's parallel-port device doesn't do any heavy lifting. Its only task during the analog-to-digital conversion is chrominance subsampling, or reducing the color depth of the video to decrease frame data and make higher frame rates possible. A very simple capture utility provides configuration settings and capture parameters, including...