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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
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Subject: Re: Toaster & ST (was: re: LEXICOLOR, Atari TT/030,...
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Date: 5 Mar 91 19:15:18 GMT
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(Robert D. Thompson) writes:
)
)	What about Intels DVI for the PC.  I attended a Developers
)	Workshop for DVI this Fall.  The hardware seems so much
)	more advanced than what the Amiga provides (at least from
)	the video tape they sent me).  DVI allows you to author
)	video on a CD - WITH COMPRESSION!  It provides all the
)	special effects, output options, etc...
)
)	The Amiga is impressive, but I think I'll wait until I
)	can afford DVI - it is just so much better.

Amiga and DVI have many things in common, in particular, both have a
hampered life due to certain "standards" problems.  In the Amiga,
it's PC-crap, and for DVI it's JPEG.

DVI and Toaster have virtually nothing in common, function-wise,
except that the output is sort of video for  both.

By the time that DVI has some software, the Amiga might have
full-motion video.  And don't get to carried away with the
"compression on your desk" angle with DVI.  It's lack of
full-power compression in real-time (a so-called "asymmetric
compression scheme") is another big problem it has going up
against the much more boring JPEG.

)Robert

I see you're posting from Oakland University.  I went there for
a year.  Want some more free advice ... ?  Send me email.

	jimm

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