Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun14.214105.1414@ncsu.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 21:41:05 GMT References: <1991Jun12.192948.20028@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun14.125339.18489@NCoast.ORG> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 39 davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes: > taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: >> This sounds nice, but the problem is that the CDTV's color >> capabilities are hardly photographic, especially compared to the CD-I >> systems. Unless the color capabilities of the CDTV are drastically >> improved, the limited color of the CDTV will not do justice to >> digitized true-color stills. > > Oh please. I am sure this will be SOFTWARE ONLY system. How many people > you know would rather use a system that might not have all the color > clarity (assuming that the disks digitally encode the data which the CDTV > would not be able to represent with 4096 colors. If it is done like the > other disk video formats there won't be ANY difference at all, since the > CDTV graphics will not be used) [...] Photos are digitized, edited on Suns, compressed, and stored as digital files. These are pictures with something like 18 million pixels, thus allowing them to be magnified and/or displayed on future systems with more res than now. Kodak says "image quality exceeds all HDTV standards under consideration". They are decoded and displayed on whatever video hardware the computer has available. And MB is irrefutably correct that stock CDTV is hardly the best platform for that. Bad enough for color and fleshtones, but also consider B&W photographs... and then think about the limited greyscale of stock CDTV. > I have not heard of CD-I even saying they intend to support this. > Have you heard something I haven't? Yes :-) Quoted from the Kodak press release NINE months ago: "The Photo CDs will also produce high quality photographic display on Philips' new Compact Disc Interactive (CD-I) players." Moreover, Philips and Sony hold the main patents on CDROM technology. (That's why we even have a standard cdrom layout in the first place.) In other words, Kodak and Philips were partners in creating Photo-CD... and Philips will be building the first dedicated Photo-CD players. Hope the info helped. - kevin