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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards
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Date: 10 Dec 90 12:04:31 GMT
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	Kent, this IS a vendetta. The truth lies somewhere
between Ben Williams is an angel and your position:

In article <1990Dec10.070806.14519@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>>| <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>
>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.
>
	How is that slamming? That sounds pretty mild. It is
true. RGB differentiates color better than composite. It sounds
relatively factual. No one likes NTSC standards, which is what
DCTV does.

>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.
>
	HAM-E isn't intended to go to videotape. Ben Williams
would be the first to tell you to buy DCTV if that were your
need. HAM-E is meant as a graphics booster for Amiga users. And I
doubt that the DCTVs NTSC signal can be brought back from NTSC
color hell with a $100 option.

>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.
>
	It sounds like you should be trashing DCTV, not HAM-E.
Ben Williams has not advertised yet, and has never claimed HAM-E
to be more than an 18-bit HAM mode, which it is depending on
whether you use number of bits or equivalent number of bits.
DCTV, on the other hand, calls itself 24 bit, and there have
already been numerous articles saying that NTSC isn't close to 24
bit.
	-- 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?"