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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Studebakers
Message-ID: <5637@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 88 07:34:29 GMT
References: <4400@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2111@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kent@cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <2111@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>In article <4400@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>Almost any peripheral can be had, UNIX doesn't buy you anything, but
>>24 bits per pixel in a CONSUMER PRODUCT at a reasonable price would be a
>>first.
>
>I'll second this motion.  Don't waste too much time on heading towards
>1K by 1K, I can't afford the monitor and 640x400 is too much for my
>VCR as it is.  MORE COLORS MORE COLORS MORE COLORS More Colors more colors
>more colors more colors .... ..... .... ..... .... ..... 
>
>more CHIP RAM, and a blitter per bit-plane would be nice too.
>
>I think the smartest thing Amiga ever did was NTSC compatibility.
>
>Keith Doyle

Amen.  Several times.

No sense at all trying for higher resolution until the "not invented
here" squabble among Japan, Europe, the U.S., (and other parties (?))
over what will be the (one hopes, this time) international standard
for high definition television broadcasting is settled.  When a
standard is adopted, that would be an excellent upgrade target for the
then current Amiga.  Until then, keep NTSC compatibility, hope for a
cheap single frame recording VCR (or video disk recorder) to come
along, and watch an explosion of folks doing titling, overlaying, and
so forth with their Amiga's on their home video tapes.  Man is that a
huge yuppie market; I hope some VCR maker notices the handwriting on
the wall soon.  (I can also imagine just _tons_ of perverted things to
do to commercial TV recordings with an Amiga, a genlock, a single
frame double drive (read a frame, modify it on the Amiga, write it on
the other drive, step one frame...) VCR and some software, for the fun
and amusement of friends and family....  Heh heh.)

Kent, the man from xanth.
(No TV equipment _here_ officer, you must want someone else; all I
have is that old computer over there in the corner....)