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- From: rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Msg from Carl Sassenrath (VISCorp)
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:08:20 GMT
- Organization: UB
- Message-ID: <4l6b04$ghe@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>
- References: <jgager-1204962257310001@annex-106.bmi.net> <4krh5q$k7o@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4ksosh$nvu@fnord.dfw.net> <4l5oes$f05@the-fly.zip.com.au>
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- In article <4l5oes$f05@the-fly.zip.com.au>, Greg Hope <gregh@zip.com.au> wrote:
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- >In article <4ksosh$nvu@fnord.dfw.net> hybrid@star.slinknet.com (Chris Hall)
- writes:
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- >> A set top box is a computer. The term "Set top box" is getting a bad wrap
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- >Are you sure? I was under the impression it can mean a lot of other things
- >that arent a computer but can use the guts of an Amiga anyway.
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- A set box is not a PC anymore than a Sega or Nintendo are. I have
- difficulties imagining doing any serious work at TV resolutions *or*
- in a TV setting. Programming and/or writing a paper might be
- difficult in the family room.
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- >> that it doesn't deserve. What's the difference between a 1200 connected
- >> to a TV and a set top box Amiga? The shape of the case and location.
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- >Oh really...have you ever connected ANY Amiga to a TV and then connected it to
- >a monitor? The difference is quite noticeable even on the BETTER TV standard,
- >PAL-D!
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- Connecting a computer to a TV was OK in 1982, not now.
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- Ross.
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