Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: What the heck IS "Interactive TV"? (long) Message-ID: <1991Apr16.003917.1628@ncsu.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 00:39:17 GMT References: <5967@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Apr15.020525.26370@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Apr15.111414.10624@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr15.164226.15219@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 18 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >>> DCTV provides DYUV color the same as CD-I. >> >>That's the first I'd heard that about DCTV. Please tell us more details! >>In fact, I haven't yet seen a decent article up here about DCTV's guts. >>Got a file or two you can post over in .graphics or .hardware? (There >>are some questions from others there too). >> > Ohh. I think I understand. At one point I was saying that >DCTV provided TV quality video and you thought I was crazy. You >probably assumed I was typing CDTV. No, no! > DCTV, by Digital Creations, plugs into the Amiga RGB port No sir, I knew what you meant :-). I'd just never read that DCTV used DYUV. Ahh, maybe you mean it can read/write DYUV files? That makes perfect sense. But no, my question had nothing to do with CDTV/CD-I. It was curiousity about DCTV, about which I don't think I've seen a good tech report up yet. thx again - kev