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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
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Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards
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Date: 10 Dec 90 18:38:51 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.120431.23963@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
-
-	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.
-

Mostly agree with that, they really don't "slam" anyone. The articles
may/may not agree with reality, but are at most exaggerations, not lies.
They should also be seen in the light of a series of articles a few months
ago reviewing DCTV and giving mis-information about the HAM-E. They were,
however, not written by the makers of DCTV (not officially anyway).

->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.
-

"For use in all your video applications, the HAM-E is designed to operate
with most external NTSC or PAL encoders, as well as external genlocks."

->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
-

"The first mode is one where you can have up to 256 registered colors out
of a palette of 16 million colors (24 bit!)."

This is from Black Belt's colour flyer, and is the only place where they
mention 24 bit. You have to be rather stupid to mis-interpret that, so I
can't say that they have lied about that.

-	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?"


Tommy Petersson