Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU!V131Q5CG From: V131Q5CG@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (John Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: HDTV (was Re: Supporting our own Apple //s) Message-ID: <8905220052.aa22548@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 22 May 89 04:50:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 [...] >From: System Administrator >Of course, we all know that HDTV in current implementation will also >cause every channel to use twice their current bandwidth. There's a "matrix" encoding system (or so I hear) that will maintain the current bandwidth... >Some of >the implementations of current technology in HDTV that I have seen will >allow the sets to be used as Mac II quality monitors. [...] >Hmm... IIgs+ with the brand new HDTV compatible monitor! Naw, never >work... The problem here is that the Mac supports quite a few scan lines (something obscene like 1140) and the IIgs(?) doesen't. Also, Mac's with NuBUS slots can run multiple monitors, so HDTV would be nice for displaying two pages sie-by-side; II's require circuity modifications just to run two and still at nowhere near comparable resolution {sigh}. ------------- John Taylor -- State University of New York at Buffalo Bitnet : v131q5cg@ubvmsc Internet: v131q5cg@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu