Willow Peripherals was originally incorporated in Manhattan in 1984 by founders Jonathan Vail, Bill Bares, Valerie Gardner, Calvin Berger and Howard Alexander.
[4] In 1986, the company moved to Port Morris in the South Bronx and began developing video-related products for the IBM PC shortly afterward.
The card tied in with Willow's Video Capture Software (VCAP), which could export the frame grab to a number of image file formats, including TIFF, PCX, and EPS.
[7] Later in 1988, the company introduced the VGA-TV, a device which could output full VGA video over a composite signal, the first product on the market with this purpose.
[10]: 291–293 The VGA-TV saw widespread use in many disparate areas, including in the White House, where it was used to pipe the output of PC teleprompter software for Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton to read; as well as in the film industry, where it facilitated certain special effects.