CompuServe Messages

Chris, -> […] RGB converter […] adds about $250 to the price of a $400 DCTV. My converter cost a lot less. I bought it together with DCTV. -> As for DCTV animation speed I read a comparison in comp.sys.amiga.graphics using three popular AGA _and_ DCTV capable anim players. the fps values were highest for DCTV. -> you […] are probably uninformed about […] what passes as 'true -> color'. I know that neither DCTV's lower resolution 2-4M colors nor HAM8 with its high resolution 256K+ colors are true color. They both are, though, "true colors" to the unsuspecting viewer, which is what our customers are. -> 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) HAM6, even from a 24bit palette must look a lot worse than DCTV 3bit. Especially when put through the RGB converter and viewed on a good monitor or recorded through a good Y/C genlock. -> 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. I don't care about high resolutions and flicker free output (unless on my 20" monitor, that is), because I output to video. PAL Video is 736×566 INTERLACED. What good are new modes to ME if I can't get them to video? I realize, though, that most people will have a use for these modes, and I acknowledge the benefit they are for the Amiga as a system. As much as I like the A4000, AGA is not what I need for my business. I'm happy that they did it, though, and I'm looking forward very much to the new Low-end and High-End chip sets as related to us by Mr. Eggebrecht. They are a couple more years down the road, however. Tom / Amiga Imagineer from Switzerland with AutoPilot engaged