Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!philmtl!altitude!menzies
From: menzies@altitude.CAM.ORG (Stephen Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Amiga Graphics and HDTV
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.192109.18988@altitude.CAM.ORG>
Date: 27 Jun 90 19:21:09 GMT
References: <3302@crash.cts.com> <1990Jun25.232058.9752@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <3302@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>>In-Reply-To: message from wizard@sosaria.imp.com
>>Nobody has realtime 24bit animation (at least 30fps), and sure you can get
 
           24bit always goes to a frame by frame recorder or Abekas digital
           frame store.

>This raised in my mind a sudden practical concern.  Much as I'd like to see
>_much_ better graphics available for the Amiga in terms of bitplanes,
>resolution, and speed, I just realized that I'd rather wait until the High
>Definition TeleVision standard is agreed upon and implemented, so that the
>current lead in the video marketplace of the Amiga could be carried on into
>the next generation of TV, rather than see a lot of development dollars
>spent by CBM pursuing private improved displays that would have to be tossed
>out and spent again when HDTV comes along.  The same money could be providing
>wider busses, more speed, additional coprocessors, and so on that could be
>used now and still be useful down the line.
 
           I respect your concern but it seems to me that the lack of 24 bit
           is *the* major problem confronting the Amiga and graphics, *now*.
           Ray-tracing in Ham is tolerable although it places great 
           restrictions on imagery and subject matter. Painting in Ham is
           intolerable and unnatural (like working with a substance unknown
           to mankind). The same people that will be looking for a HDTV   
           capable Amiga in the future are the same ones looking at the
           Amiga right now. And they're not always happy with what they see,
           ie. lo-res Ham. Commodore would sell a lot more computers to
           these people if the Amiga could deliver a 24bit/anti-aliased/higher
           resolutioned graphic in 3D and paintbox work ,now. The money
           generated from these sales could be used in R&D for HDTV.

>Kent, the man from xanth.
-- 
Stephen Menzies
email: menzies@altitude.CAM.ORG