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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: How many bits are needed for NTSC? [was Re: Workstations that can record/play]
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Date: 19 Nov 89 17:30:02 GMT
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In article <630@alias.UUCP> mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
>In article <46900048@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>Well, not quite.  A standard NTSC image does not contain the digital
>>equivalent of 24 bits per pixel.  

Sun TAAC group says 2 bits per pixel is adequate for color animation.
For actual digital processing, that is still-frame and decompressed,
the amount approachs 24 bits per pixel.

Storage amounts and digital processing are different issues with different
optimal answers in this debate.