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From: kurt@cashew.asd.sgi.com (Kurt Akeley)
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Subject: Re: Every little bit color ?
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Date: 18 Dec 90 02:31:06 GMT
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In article <9012151554.AA06362@karron.med.nyu.edu>, Dan
Karron@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
   ...

|> You(sgi) are ignoring a large and important part of your future audience
|> (and customers): Professional film interperters and soothsayers. I remember
|> reading about the infancy of High Fidelity: People argued that the
|> human ear could not hear what we now consider an important part of the
|> audio spectrum.

Jeff's comments about the limits of human visual perception should not be
understood to be SGI policy; they represent his opinion only.  Others of
us here at SGI read Stereophile religiously, do not accept 8-bit DACs as
the eternal "right" answer, and continue to work hard to improve the visual
quality of our products.

-- kurt

p.s. just my opinion, of course