CompuServe Messages

Don, I think you're missing the point of what I'm doing with the Amiga. I don't give a gol darn about the clarity on an RGB monitor. The whole reason I bought an Amiga in the first place is for video production, to be put on television. While one can reach a reasonably large number of Amiga users through CIS, or any of the other four services I visit from time to time, the display option that counts is TV, pure and simple. 50 cents and a beautiful picture on a converted ST monitor through a flicker fixer will get you a (small) cup of coffee, as far as I'm concerned. I produce television not fo my gratification, or to showmy girlfriend and the kids and the cat, but for the city of Honolulu, Hawaii. NTSC, although it isn't pretty compared to RGB or RGBI, or even PAL,for that matter (I don't know about SECAM), is what counts. While I'm at it, I want to reply to an undeercurrent of opinion that Amiga is a late joke, because HDTV is coming. I have heard, here and on and on BIX, about the obsolescence of regular 525 line NTSC video, presumeably because there's going to be a massive shift to HDTV within the next decade. Make me laugh. IF the manufacturers satisfy the FCC with an NTSC COMPATIBLE FORMAT, which will be manditory, and has not been produced, then good old social inertia will keep 525 line alive for 20 years or more, during the first ten of which the older format will dominate. If the world is such that HDTV is going to be in every home immediately, then why are good old vinyl records and icky old cassette tapes still selling? CDs should have killed them by now. CDs are still in the "new and expensive" portion of their life. Why are there so many 5.25 floppies around, and why are so many people buying 5.25 drives to interface to computers that have the NEW (and expensive) admitedly better 3.5 microfloppy drives? Poo poo. TEchnology provides increasingly more effective ways to interface with and improve WHAT'S ALREADY OUT THERE. People can be so silly. I wonder which new CD I am going to buy y tonight on my way home? Maybe an LP this week….. Alan Whinery