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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards
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Date: 4 Dec 90 22:41:16 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.214546.7091@Neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>>	Kent, take out a calculator and do a little math. The
>>resolution of DCTV is somewhere around 600x300, or 180,000
>>pixels. Therefore, if you get 18 bits worth of distinct colors
>>out of a 24 bit palette, you essentially have a 24 bit
>>frame-buffer within the given resolution limit. ie there are only
>>enough pixels to display 18 bits worth of color. I believe that
>
>  This is only true if the 18 bits of color are used to index
>into a lookup table (which in turn has 24 bits of
>information).

	The one thing that seems apparent from what Digital
Creations has been saying is that you get an NTSC TV quality
pictue, in terms of color, and slightly less in terms of
resolution (300 instead of 330 lines or some such). These images
can also be animated in pretty-much real time because all it is
is just a high-res-interlace screen. Pageflipping works just
fine.
	-- Ethan

	Woody Allen on Los Angeles:

	"I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only
cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light?"