Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!cbmnlux!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: DCTV Message-ID: <1161@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 91 06:55:48 GMT References: <997@celia.UUCP> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 21 In article <997@celia.UUCP> celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond) writes: > >To begin with DCTV is not true 24 bit display. Anything using NTSC as a final >output is not 24 bit. Now this is false. I know of a very good board from Germany/Austria (the Videomaster VD2001) that provides true 24-bit graphics plus necessarily NTSC output, because it's thought for use in a professional video environment. And there you don't have a different choice. > What concerned me, was, how they were going to turn a composite >NTSC signal into RGB. It is easy to make a good signal bad, but it is not easy >to make a bad signal look good. You aren't going to sell me on NTSC. I have >worked with it too long to have any respect for it. It is a necessary EVIL. You must have gotten something wrong. They do it exactly the other way round, the easier way: they produce NTSC out of RGB. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk