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- From: Zoltan Hunt <zhunt@calumet.yorku.ca>
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- Subject: Re: Power Amiga questions
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 05:54:30 GMT
- Organization: Calumet College, York U.
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- >1. The Amiga arguably got its biggest publicity boost from the Video
- >Toaster, but high definition television seems just around the corner now.
- >When the system is firmly in place, won't this niche (and the importance
- >of the Amiga's bus timing) just dry up as digital broadcasts take over?
- >What steps could AT take for the Amiga to keep its edge here? What about
- >some special built-in graphics modes, or a built-in chip for graphics
- >encoding/decoding and a DSP for sound? I know little about how hdtv will
- >affect specific changes in video equipment and computers, but with no
- >shortage of every kind of pc card nowadays, it seems like another losing
- >battle...
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- Apparently NewTek and AmigaTech are pretty close these days, at the last WOA (Dec. 95, Toronto) it seems that AT visits NT very regu=
- larly. Plus, I'm sure NT is aware of Hi-Def TV, so when its standard is figure out, they should be in a position to support it. IMO=
- : it will be a good number of years before Hi-Def TV has much of an impact, after all, a good system might not work with the TVs we =
- use nowadays (which is state of the art tech for the 1950s). Also, it seems likely that the PawerAmigas will use DSP for sound, and=
- there is ,apparently, a new graphics chip-set in development.
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- >IBM mice on the Power Amigas. There is no mention of joysticks, so I
- >wonder where they will go with these?
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- The PowerAmigas will likely be a super-set of CHRP.
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- >BTW, did you know the Amiga was mentioned briefly on PBS's "Computer
- >Chroncles" last week? It was 2/3 of the way through the program when
- >they were running through the week's news. They quoted the company
- >designing the Amiga set-top box, that "the Amiga chip set is perfect for
- >such an application because of its versatility and low cost" (or some-
- >thing like that). It was only a sentence or two, but it made me happy!
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- Some good press at last. Good to hear. :)
- Zoltan
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