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From: wright@etsuv2.etsu.edu (BRIAN WRIGHT)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Video Lamers was Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 01:34:57 GMT
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In article <1991Jun8.234020.29594@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes...

>Have YOU used productivity?? This has to be the biggest lemon that C=
>ever wasted their money on developing.

Yes, I have used productivity and I don't feel that it's a waste of development
time at all.  It's a rather useless feature on a 3000 (because of the Amber),
but it most definitely not a waste on the A500 or A2000.  Having a rock steady
nonflicker 640x480 screen is what everyone has been wanting.  Here you are
saying it's a wasted effort.  You would have to pay around $200+ to get a 
Commodore's deinterlacing board.  That is significantly less than purchasing a
Denise and getting productivity.  Even if you had to purchase the Denise and
Agnus together it would still be less than Commodore's deinterlacer board. 
Granted you don't get ALL modes deinterlaced with productivity, but it is a
useful resolution.  I will agree that the limit of 4 colors is a constraint,
but then most M*Cs are B/W with 2 colors (SE's and Pluses) and the NeXT has
only 4 colors in mono.  Only do the color NeXTs utilize the colors available, 
but then do the software packages?  Just look at the price you spend to get 
color on either of those platforms for color.   

No, I don't think it's wasted money or time.  It has it's place, but isn't
utilized yet.  Yes, you can definitely tell a difference between the
noninterlaced 640x480 screen and the deinterlaced 640x400 screen.  As for the
higher resolutions (1280x400) and such, well I'd definitely use it for my
workbench *IF* my 1950 supported 1280x800 or so, but it doesn't.

>-- 
>=======================================================================
>Matt Crowd        cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au         | Thinking of a 
>                                                  | Master Plan.....
>Resident Computer Science FTP Mutant              | Eric.B

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