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Subject: Re: NTSC standard
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 20:50:48 EST
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In article <3250@ece-csc.UUCP> hand@ece-csc.UUCP (Steven Hand) writes:
> [...]  If bandwidth is the problem, I'd
>be happy with just one bit plane, but let's have HIGH RESOLUTION TEXT WITHOUT
>THE JITTERS!

Settle down; there's no reason to get antsy. There are several
problems with supporting 640 x 400 noninterlaced, but the digital
half of it is relatively easy. The biggest problem is that monitors that
can do this cost about $2000 by themselves. Thus very little of the Amiga
audience could afford even the monitor, let alone monitor plus more
expensive graphics circuitry.

This adds up to saying "Hey, it's not Commodores fault...it's just that
such technology is expensive. Price a color Sun workstation, for instance".

But good news is at hand. Higher resolution add on graphics boards will
be released for the Amiga 2000. How easy it'll be to adapt this for our
1000 is an open question. Even better news: by the end of the year, there
will be high end television sets that'll be able to display images without
interlace by using a frame buffer. So you'll be able to just buy a tv and
use it with your existing Amiga 1000. It'll still be pricy, of course, but
if you really want it...

This sort of thing is unavoidable. Eventually, the horsepower of a Cray
will be available in an affordable home computer. But by then, that'll
seem real slow. Same thing holds for display technology. There will always
be high-end technology, which will always A) be desirable to those with
low budgets, and B) will be expensive relative to low budgets. The only
problem with the Amiga is that it gives us *almost* super graphics at
low end prices. This is not *really* a problem, except that it whets
your appetite for super graphics without the compromises like interlace.
	Doug