Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Black BElt Video Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 90 00:11:45 GMT References: <25a12198:3611comp.sys.amiga@tronsbox.UUCP><1990Jan3.200455.744 0@athena.mit.edu> <25679@cup.portal.com> Distribution: na Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 24 NewTek's box (ie: The Video Toaster) has been about to be released for so long that I'd buy just about anything *but* a video toaster. In effect it stops development in the industry by getting weak minded buyers such as yourself to wait 4 years for a nonexistant product while real developers can't get people to purchase their own *real* products. Btw: ever notice how the price of the toaster has changed over the years? Yes, it's gotten progressively more expensive. It doesn't matter; I've never been in the market for one of those. What I want (and what the early rumors of ECS had told me they were going to be like) is (1) noninterlaced 640x400 with color specs as they are now for interlaced 640x400 and (2) 24-bit color a'la the Mac II. The former can be done with Flicker Fixer; the latter can be done with Black Belt. Both cannot be used together, though, and thus Black Belt is not of use to me. Yes, NewTek has a habit of making mondo vaporware, but when I said I'll wait for NewTek it meant that at least there was a possibility that their product might support de-interlacing. -- Robert Jude Kudla "Famous? I'm not famous. People come up to me after a show and say 'Hey, Steve!'" -Jon Anderson