Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!barrett From: barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun30.092929.22762@news.iastate.edu> Date: 30 Jun 91 09:29:29 GMT References: <1991Jun27.192124.19519@apollo.hp.com> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Lines: 56 In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > > >My point exactly.. Bob The Consumer has no IDEA what the difference between >12 and 24 bit is. > > >Besides, ive seen 12-bit HAM images (CDTV, inotherwords) that looked BETTER >than some 24-bit pictures ive seen. You are comparing highly-optimized 12-bit pictures to generic 24-bit pictures, which isn't at all fair. With the Amiga's pseudo-12-bit color, in order to get good results you have to pick the picture well and use a very sophisticated color-processing algorithm. With a pseudo-24-bit color box (like the CD-I machines), you can pick any old picture, convert it with any crude processing algorithm, and the results will be very spectacular. Remember, 24-bit is a superset of 12-bit. This means that the CD-I machines (for instance) can display color at least as well as an Amiga. They can spectacularly blow the Amiga away if you start using sophisticated processing algorithms on CD-I as well. > >Bob The Consumer just wants a multimedia box. Sure, he thought of 24-bit will >give some of them a woody, but only a very VERY small minority. Bob the Consumer won't know what 12-bit and 24-bit mean. However, Bob the Consumer does have *EYES* and will be able to tell the differences between the 24-bit CD-I and the inferior 12-bit CDTV/Amiga when the two are shown next to each other. BTW, it amazes me how much Amiga users are suddenly comfortable with inferior technology. Way back when the Amiga was brand-new, the attitudes of MAC people -- that they would accept inferior technology simply because it came from Apple -- drove Amiga users mad. Now, the Amiga users are accepting inferior Amiga technology simply it is from Commodore. > >"Think John Hinkley would be impressed if Reagan shot Jodie Foster?" - Me >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Nothin like a good single-tasking, single-processor based beep-box like an IBM >to liven things up 'round the office! >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Direct all bomb threats and assorted hate-mail to arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us ------------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------- / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / / ISU COM S Student | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU / ------------------------------------------------------------