Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!att!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards Message-ID: <1990Dec10.070806.14519@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 10 Dec 90 07:08:06 GMT References: <1990Dec9.143953.3801@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1990Dec9.202701.4260@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Dec10.031722.16926@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 74 kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >| (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >Again, he's agreeing. I think you're letting your good intentions blind >you. You're correct. You're right. We all _agree_. :-) >| His utterly viscious attacks on the competitive DCTV product in the same >| article shows a little too much hunger and too little ethics to suit me, >Huh? This is all that he calmly wrote (readers decide for themselves): > >> DCTV does not modulate the signal with 24 bits of data. So, even >> taking into account the damage done by NTSC encoding, it never >> was 24 bits. I don't know if this applies to the Toaster. Sorry, you picked one paragraph out of a two page diatribe comparing HamE to DCTV: Perhaps this one will refresh your memory: Ahem. The HAM-E can display a quarter of a million colors, and do them as a MUCH sharper image than the DCTV can. Whereupon he goes on the slam the DCTV for needing a $100 option to output RGB, and slides right past the extra cost for the "encoder" required to make the HamE output composite color. With the $100 option, one assumes the DCTV would have an equally sharp image; without the "encoder" option, I'd guess the HamE can't go to videotape at all. >And as for the European customer with the power supply, I believe that >Black Belt is attempting to correct the situation. In the first >enthusiasm of product shipments, this kind of thing often occurs. >Companies have to be informed of complaints first tho, before they can >take corrective action. Seems to their credit that they're trying. I didn't see any such offer in your followup article on this very point. >| Most places I've been we call this "customer ripoff mail fraud". >And most places would call your messages a "vendetta" ;-). But I don't >think they are. I think you're just on a roll about the definition of >"24-bit color", and more power to you! best - kevin (for myself). A vendetta needs a specific target; I began this discussion as a general slam against sleazeballs advertising lesser trash as 24-bit systems, and your excerpts provided the perfect example. > PS: As one of the instrumental parties creating the several new > OS-9/68K machines, I find it amusing that Amigans love so much to rip > into their third party suppliers. Y'all make us glad we chose a > different route. No need for NeXT people to destroy you... you're > doing it to yourselves. To the contrary, part of the strength of the Amiga market (one of the few it has) is that we harry and worry the folks who take money and give little or no value in return out of the Amiga market. I've personally led USENet fights that closed two rip-off outfits, and if I could maintain my net access long enough, Montgomery Grant, the Amiga Magazines carrying their ads, the Post Office Postal Investigator Service Mail Fraud Unit, the angry customers and I would have our day together; when and if I get back, that's the next Amiga Politics Project on my list after the reorganization is complete. There are tens of thousands of businesses founded in this country every year; the Amiga can get by with just the ethical ones, thank you. The rest just lower the _Amiga's_ reputation. We'll gladly send them your way, if you consider them so valuable. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.