CompuServe Messages

Thomas, I hadn't considered the RGB converter, perhaps because it adds about $250 on to the price of a $400 DCTV. As for DCTV animation speed, I think you are seriously underestimating the speed of AGA and are probably uninformed about the bandwidths involved and what passes as 'true color'. First, DCTV on an ECS machine cannot match AGA's speed.. period. Assuming the comparison is made between DCTV on AGA and AGA itself, DCTV will be no faster than AGA. At their fastest, DCTV would use a 3bitplane hires screen (providing 6bitplanes at lowres); whereas AGA can animate a 6bitplane lowres HAM screen using the 16-million color palette (as opposed to ECS's 6bitplane HAM with only 4K colors). Using DCTV on an AGA machine becomes a non-issue if you want flexibility in resolutions and display formats for your work; AGA wins hands down. For an AGA user, the money that would be spent on DCTV would be better used on a basic hires 24bit framegrabber or a scanner. One should also consider DCTV's product life, which is now seriously in doubt. I'm certain that if DCTV were a marketable product for use on AGA machines, Digital Creations would not have worked to develop their new Brilliance paint program (which their ad states as supporting AGA, yet I don't see mention of DCTV support). -Chris