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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
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Date: 4 Oct 88 07:33:18 GMT
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(My original message)
>> 	6 would be an improvment, but not a great enough leap to be meaningful.
>> 8 is the bare competitive minimum for today's market (8 bits per gun that is).
 Peter da Silva  peter@sugar.uu.net Writes:
>
>It may be a competitive minimum, but is it a real requirement after all? Can
>people really distinguish 256 levels of red, green, and blue? Just because
>the 8-bit DACs are cheap doesn't mean they're really necessary.

	Don't you mean, "can people really distinguish 64 levels of" ??
If, presumably, you are arguing for 6 bits/gun rather than 8 bits/gun as being
reasonable.  The answer is yes, you can, to both 64 and 256 levels. 

We still are nowhere near photographic quality.  The best high-res monitors I
saw at the desk-top publishing conference were awesome, and I was really
struct by them UNTIL I looked at a very high end photographic quality output 
device (forgot the name, but it was huge, incredibly expensive, used a
photographic process, and accepted postscript).

				-Matt