Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!pa.dec.com!decabo.enet.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!guest From: drew@cgou11.enet.dec.com (Steve Drew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DCTV and Firecracker 24 Message-ID: <1991Mar4.171658.20843@e2big.mko.dec.com> Date: 4 Mar 91 17:16:58 GMT References: <5664@tahoe.unr.edu> Sender: guest@e2big.mko.dec.com (Guest (DECnet)) Reply-To: drew%cgou11.dec@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment. Calgary, Canada. Lines: 37 In article , bobl@graphics.rent.com (Bob Lindabury) writes: ... more good stuff about DCTV deleted... I would also have to agree that DCTV is well worth the price. I have been using every feature of it. The digitizing quality is fantastic. Using just a standard RCA video camera and a desk lamp, in 10 secs I can have a perfect copy of any image. Viewing the image back under DCTV seems to have no noticable loss in quality. It still seems like your lookin at the live image it's so good! The paint program in unbelievable, I've had a lot of fun superimposing images onto other pictures in full 16 million colors using the "RubThru" and cromakey effects (just like the weatherman). According to the readme lots of new features are also on the way. What also amazes me is how SMALL the images are in size when saved as DCTV display format. In 24bit IFF an image may take about 800 K bytes of space where as in DCTV compressed video format only takes about 120 Kbytes. Also converting color images from other sources ie SUN raster, GIF to RGB then to DCTV gives perfect results. (Makes HAM mode look pretty bad). Being able to display 640 by 480 GIF images without any loss in quality is real nice. For the price DCTV is great value. Since I don't have a VGA or multisync monitor (just plain 1084) DCTV is my choice over firecracker (which I have had a demo of). Just my 2 cents.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Drew: drew%cgou11@decwrl.dec.com Phone : 403-295-HELP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~