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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DCTV
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Date: 25 Apr 91 23:07:19 GMT
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In article <1161@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>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.
>
	Peter, the data may be STORED as a 24 bit image, and all
computations may be 24 bit, but the output is NOT 24 bit.

	-- Ethan

"Brain? What is Brain?"