Truevision

Truevision is a name historically associated with Truevision, Inc., an American company that developed digital imaging hardware for professional video and computer graphics. In the 1980s and 1990s, Truevision produced high-end graphics and video capture boards for PCs and workstations, designed to enable hardware-accelerated graphics, color processing, and video input/output for broadcast and post-production environments. The company’s hardware and software offerings, including the TARGA line, were used to support raster graphics, overlays, and real-time video capture in professional workflows.

A notable byproduct of Truevision's technology was the TGA image file format, associated with its graphics hardware and software. The TGA format supported true color and simple run-length encoding, and was widely adopted by image editing and graphics software during the era of early PC-based imaging.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Truevision’s business faced consolidation within the graphics and video hardware industry. Its technology and products were gradually absorbed through mergers, acquisitions, or licensing arrangements with other companies, and the Truevision brand diminished in the market. Today, the company’s legacy is recognized for contributions to professional graphics acceleration, early PC-based video capture, and the TGA format used in imaging applications.