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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
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Subject: Re: What is DCTV?!!? (was Re:DCTV from Digital Creations)
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Date: 14 Sep 90 03:45:22 GMT
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S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:

>The only problem that I can forsee with this product is the proprietory
>compression/decompression of imagery and the imbeded codes within the image.
>DCTV images will have to be manipulated following the conventions of DCTV
>in order to remain viewable ALL the time.  In other words, neither DPAINTIII,
>Photon Paint, nor Digipaint will do for editing DCTV's image format.  If these
>packages pick up the format it will be possible.  That is providing DC will
>allow for support of their image format.  I would expect that they would.

Actually, I believe I heard that DCTV would support the loading and saving
of IFF 24-bit format images. So it should be possible to use any 24-bit
program that can save or load in this format, although accessing the actual
frame buffer may require some other piece of software. The real question
is will you be able to use other 24-bit paint products and the frame
buffer at the same time. I think ASDG announced that it would support all
the companies that wanted to be supported by ASDGs software, so perhaps that
won't be much of a problem either.


| Michael Griffith                     | If I had an opinion it certainly   |
| griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu             | wouldn't be the same one as        |
| ...!tektronix!psueea!eecs!griffith   | Portland State University anyways. |