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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: FlickerFixer 2.0
Message-ID: <18375@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 31 Jan 91 17:45:13 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.053440.26713@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jan31.053440.26713@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>
>  With the damn of the A2320 card, many people thought products like
>MicroWay's flickerfixer were no longer needed. I have an idea that perhaps
>some enterprising company may want to produce someday. 
>  The ECS Denise provides 2 new interlaced modes, 640x960 and 1280x400.
>The Display Enhancer on the A3000 nor the 2320 deinterlaces these(
>probably slow/not enough ram on the card for sampling). So is it
>feasibly possible to de-interlace these modes, and will any monitor support it?

Technically, this type of card would be possible, but would cost at
least twice as much as the current de-interlacer/scan-doubler type of
devices today.  The real problem is that instead of outputing 28Mhz
pixels, such as these devices do today, the version 2 card would be
outputing about 57Mhz pixel data.  You would have to buy a very
expensive monitor that has a video bandwidth that high so that you could
resolve these pixels on the display!!  So, instead of spending about
$700 - $900 dollors for say the A2320 and A1950 monitor, you would have
to spend about $1600 for this new display device and appropiate monitor.
Not what I would call a high-volume or even a cost-effective solution!

But then again, some third-party developer may feel He/She has a market
for such a device - go for it!

Regards,
Scott Hood

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