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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Next machine as animation platform
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Date: 15 Nov 90 14:23:40 GMT
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In article <OLSON.90Nov14142745@sax.cs.uiuc.edu> olson@sax.cs.uiuc.edu (Bob Olson) writes:
>In article <velasco.658597478@beowulf> velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) writes:
>>   What is the resolution of the NeXTdimension video?
>
>1120x832

Sorry but I find this VERY hard to believe. The entire NeXT screen may
be this resolution but I doubt very much that the real-time video
is this resolution. Something in the range of 640x480 is far more likely.
Considering the bandwidth limitations of NTSC video and the loss incurred
by JPEG compression, the effective resolution will probably even be
below 640x480. Now it is possible that pixel replication or image scaling
are performed to fill 1120x832 pixels, but that does not reflect the
actual resolution.
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