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From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 24 Bit Video ..
Message-ID: <26f592d2-2c05comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 06:00:39 GMT
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Well, completely aside from this months round of MB postings and the knee
jerk flames they cause I have a few questions to ask ..


WHY IS IT THAT MOST OF THE FOLKS HERE ARE WORKING SO HARD TO KILL THE AMIGA
IN VIDEO ?

Seriously , jesus .. are the majority of folks on this net so short sighted
that they can't see past NTSC ??

Ok.. so the Amiga is GREAT for that .. I'm happy.. in fact I use it a lot
for that but why not move on now ??

24 Bit still frame video is a GREAT boon to most of us that do 3D world
realization programming (ray tracing and the like) ... we are ALREADY not
producing real time frames, so an additional few seconds gfor the frame
buffer attachment is not a problem.

So why is it that every time ANYONE says "we would like better Amiga video"
8000 people say "Why ???? What we have is enough". Right ... you know , i
remember wayyyyy back when the Mac folks said "but B&W is enough"....

The last thing I expected from most of the poeple that had the IQ to buy an
Amiga was that lame "why bother -- it's good enough" trash.

MAKE IT BETTER.

Maybe it won't be supported by every program , thats too bad but lets not
all just sit here and say "welp, we all will just wait for C= to make it
just right!" .... we need a good, 800x600x256 at MINIMUM , 24BIt as a goal
still frame board that can control a single frame video recorder.

To heck with NTSC .. thats already been taken care of .. so lets move on
instead of stagnate.




         INTELLIGENT FLAMES ONLY PLEASE !!!!

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