Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 16:06:58 GMT References: <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun15.003044.7479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun15.064022.27467@ncsu.edu><1991Jun15.074452.25373@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 35 rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: >In article <1991Jun15.064022.27467@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Ke >> >>HUH? Of course it has interlaced modes! What do you think a consumer >>interactive-TV unit would output, anyway? VGA frequencies? > > This means still pictures aren't going to look so hot flickering >and all that. YOU WOULD BE SUPRISED HOW GOOD INTERLACED VIDEO LOOKS ON A 27 INCH RCA DIMENSA TELEVISION!!! Looks good on my 20" RCA Dimensia!! I really thought back in 1986 when I first took my Amiga 1000 down to WCS-TV, that it wasn't going to be good enough for anything because I DID not like the flickering...Put the output through the modulator and on the air and PRESTO! The best damn video you have ever seen!! I thought it just might have been the SONY 9" Monitors down there that made it look so damn good, but I left the sucka on, and went home and checked it out. Looked damn good on a piece of shit Mexico built Zenith that was thrown out a year later because the wires all fell apart and decomposed...but thats besides the point, it still looked pretty damn good.. Impressed the teacher enough to press Warren Consolidated Schools to buy 3 Amigas just for Television Production...Guess it helps when the district spokesperson has a vested interest in video on your side...After that, I took my Amiga down to one of the United Cable's government access reps, and they bought a couple as well...and this was before the Amiga had its foot down as a "video" computer. It was just a gee whiz type of thing then...and only that ProVideo was avaiable then... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.