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From: tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.edu (Tim Desjardins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga-like PS/2 with MS-Windows multimedia software
Message-ID: <17191@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 89 14:31:31 GMT
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In article <4962@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>->... seems to come even close to what this MacII was able to do <sigh>.
>
>I suggest that you check the price tags on the two systems.
>I would bet that the Apple setup costs more than twice the amiga setup
>does.
Unfortunately big schools and business don't care that much about price as they
do about functionality. So Apple could sell all kinds of big price tag systems
and create a standard and small business and the consumer would be left in the
cold with no Apple and no multimedia hardware or software.
> ...
>This is tough since there really isn't an HDTV standard yet.
> Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu
You're right, there is no North American HDTV standard yet, the FCC has  
demanded that regular TV's be able to receive HDTV broadcasts ( obviously the
signal has a subcarrier or something for the regular TV signal or vice versa ).
One last disclaimer I'm not saying that regular TV's will be able to display
HDTV quality pictures, but that a broadcast of a program should be viewable on
both HDTV's and regular TV's, in thier own resoltions respectively. 


Have a nice day. 
Tim Desjardins.          
tdesjardins@spurge.waterloo.{edu|cdn}