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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: graphics and hdtv
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Date: 5 May 90 04:11:00 GMT
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Got a question for you gs tech'ers:

How easy would it be (at the system level) to modify the graphics
system of the gs to correspond in some
rough way to the High definition tv standard??
Seems (from my totally ignorant understanding) that both
work in roughly the same way: the gs draws
filled objects??  If I understand it the
hdtv works on filled polygons.  I know its a long shot,
but how's this for a suggestion on a rom 5: modify the
graphics kernal to support hdtv standards.  Gives the gs
a jump on everybody else who is working with ntsc. (of course
this assumes that either the graphics bottleneck everone complains
about goes away, or apple works around it.)  Would also
allow the gs a good push into the home market: as people
upgraded their tvs to hdtv the could use the hdtvs as
monitors on their gs's.  And as i've said and been flamed for
before, I really believe a home computer should be
*cheap*.

Jonathan.