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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.142838.21587@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 14:28:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.180646.24614@wehi.dn.mu.oz> baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>In article <1991Jun12.192948.20028@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>> One new feature, CDXL, will let developers display video images
>> from a CD-ROM disk on screen. Limited to images covering about one
>> third of the screen...
>> CDXL can display about 12 frames per second
>
>Do I get this right?
>
>106 x 200 pixels at 6 bits at 12 fps?
>
>Is that supposed to be an achievement?
>
>Regards Alan

	The limitation is the speed of the CD. Without
compression that is about its limit.
	-- Ethan

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