Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!galaxy From: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 24 Bit Video .. Message-ID: <12139@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 25 Sep 90 14:58:46 GMT References: <26f592d2-2c05comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.xei.com> <406@tlvx.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY 12345 Lines: 44 In-reply-to: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) In article , mwm@raven (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >In article <406@tlvx.UUCP> sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes: > > Shoot, I got a great multisync for about $500. I'm ready for high-res, now; > I don't need to wait for it to get cheaper. OK, so they come out with high-res, say 1500x1200 or so. Are you going to complain about how you have to junk your $500 monitor and shell out another grand or 2 for a new one? Oh, I forgot, that is if you wait for it to get cheaper, and you don't have to wait. Make that 3 to 5 thousand. Oh, you want color? > >You don't need to wait. But how many of the people who paid $500 for >their machine would have bought them if they'd had to spend $500 extra >for the monitor? And if all those people vanished, how many Amiga >software vendors would vanish? Would C/A still be around? Just MHO, but unless they are just trying to dump excess inventory, Commodore should allow their multiscan monitor as an extra-cost option on any bundle where they are now forcing the customer to take a 1084. Any money spent on the old monitor is wasted if the customer wants to upgrade either to ECS and productivity mode, or a flicker-fixer. > The people doing SNTSC decided they could make it work >inside the current standards. To get the full benefit, you'll have to >by a monitor with roughly double the NTSC resolution. That's true for >most HDTV formats (though some are using wide-screen movie formats as >well). After these become popular, expect the price on your $500 >monitor to drop to more like $100. Expect most people to already own >suitable monitors. It might if HDTV is incompatible (and exceeds) current multisincs resolution. Then the multisinc will be obsolete junk, or maybe have the same sort of market niche that 13 inch mono monitors do now. I wouldn't expect a monitor based on HDTV standards to be any cheaper than an equivalent (marketwise) NTSC tv or monitor is now. If they go with an NTSC compatible signal, then I don't know if there would be a market for 13 inch HDTV monitors, so figure the current price of 20 inch TV's as a starting point. -don perley perley@trub.crd.ge.com