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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1369@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 07:29:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.192948.20028@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1349@cbmger.UUCP> <1991Jun14.174930.28222@news.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <1991Jun14.174930.28222@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <1349@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>
>   Give me a break, again!  I have been using Amigas longer than many of
>the people at Commodore,

You don't mean me, do you? (Amiga user since 1985)

>  True, the Amiga can display up to 4096 colors
>at once.  However, none of the Amigas graphics modes are capable of going
>beyond 12-bit color, in any resolution.
>
>   When you are talking about photgraphs, the number of shades of each 
>color that you have in the color palette is *FAR* more important than the
>number of total colors that you can display at once.

I don't buy that. You see, for my eyes, these 4096 simultaneous colors
actually do, and also with shades of skin tones I have no problem.
You really should look at those pictures in the World Vista Atlas.

>   See above.  On the Amiga, the theoretical best that you could ever
>do is 12-bit color.  This compares to the CD-I systems, which have 
>24-bit palettes and can display 15-bits of color at once (I think).  
>If pictures of people look far better on systems with 8-bit color than
 ^^ yeah! But they don't!
>on an Amiga,you can be pretty damn confident that the CD-I systems -- 
>which will make even the systems with 8-bit color look pretty lame --
>will make the Amiga look very silly.

I'm not shivering.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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