Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Black BElt Video Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 90 10:55:33 GMT References: <8298@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 30 In-reply-to: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 8 Jan 90 00:04:40 GMT >>>>> On 8 Jan 90 00:04:40 GMT, kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) said: robert> OK, to wait for Newtek to release a new product is sort of like robert> waiting for Kate Bush to release an album, but to me, flickerfixing is robert> more important than this 24-bit kludge. (Elegant as it is.) Same here. I would much rather see the Black Belt capabilities in improved Amiga chip set or other sanctioned Commodore upgrade, rather than an add-on device that is not likely to win universal software support. At least deinterlacing can be done in a software transparent matter, and is much less of an upgrade/compatibility issue robert> Which reminds me- Why hasn't anyone come out with a box similar to robert> this one that buffers alternating lines from an interlaced screen and robert> sends 'em out noninterlaced to a Multisync monitor? Because at that point the signals are analog, not digital. You would need to sample the output digitally, then store the results in a frame buffer. Apparently the Black Belt device does this, but it doesn't try to solve the deinterlacing problem. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering