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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: DCTV
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Date: 29 Apr 91 15:32:23 GMT
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seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>The output from the DCTV device is not 24bits, it's 22bits.  However, it
>uses a pallette of 24bits.
>And besides, there is NO difference onscreen anyway.  22bits equals out to
>4.2 million possible colors simultaneously (from a 24bit pallette
>remember).  At 736x482 pixels, you have 354,752 USEABLE colors.  An extra
>two bitplanes would give your image NO better display.

Well regrettably there is a difference. I own both DCTV and a Toaster and
DCTV exhibits some fairly obvious banding on images that the Toaster
displays just fine. Since both are NTSC devices, DCTV is obviously not doing
the best that NTSC can handle, let alone coming close to a 24bit RGB output.
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