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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.205059.4196@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 20:50:59 GMT
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In article <13636@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1991Jun30.092929.22762@news.iastate.edu>, by barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N):
>>    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.  
>
>Okay.  Now you can hold on.  Who the hell ever said they were
>COMFORTABLE????  I'd love 8bit graphics.  I don't want a 24bit graphic
>chipset.  It's a bad idea.  That's for graphic boards to handle, and
>for DIG to deal with, IMHO.  What is needed now is an 8bit graphic
>chipset to compare directly with VGA.  Argh.

   You said you are comfortable with inferior technology.  By saying that
you feel that a chipset with 24-bit color is a bad idea, you are, in effect,
saying that you are comfortable with the CDTV having inferior technology.
DIG will *NEVER* benefit the CDTV.  For the CDTV to succeed against CD-I
in the long run, it needs a totally new chipset with 24-bit color.  

>
>Greg
>
>-- 
>Socrates:  "I drank WHAT????"
>LMFAP:  "Next time you see me, it won't be me."
>Wubba:  "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled
>with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream")			-Wubba


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