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From: mark@masscomp.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
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Date: 16 May 91 19:09:33 GMT
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In article <1991May16.140513.4946@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
(Terry Jones) writes:
>The NeXT box (when it is shipping with JPEG functional which I do not think
>is presently the case thanks to C-Cube!) will do something the Amiga will
>probably never do. Edit digital video on disk.

A testament from the grossly shortsighted and uninformed. Your ignorance
is overwhelming. First of all, JPEG is not intended for moving video,
that is the realm of MPEG.  JPEG is being used by a few companies to
implement digital video editing, but image quality is fair at best. Because
JPEG cannot take advantage of image to image coherency, it must sacrifice
image quality to achieve the compression needed for real time video
recording, playback, and editing from disk. MPEG addresses this problem
as that was what it was meant to do. Commodore purportedly is already
talking to MPEG chip manufacturers in an effort to include this technology
in the Amiga's long list of multimedia capabilities. I might add that it
is currently possible to edit and playback digital video from disk on the
Amiga using DCTV. Real time recording is coming soon.

>There are lots of other
>things a NeXT will do much more easily than an Amiga, like exist cleanly in
>an ethernet university environment.

You truly are uninformed. On that note, I'm out of here. These NeXT wars
are disturbingly non-productive and it appears that all you want is a war.
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