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- From: rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A message from VisCorp to us
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 06:08:04 GMT
- Organization: UB
- Message-ID: <4l7ak4$mrv@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>
- References: <4kp1lb$ort@news.internetmci.com> <carl-1604962141110001@ts2-68.pacific.net> <1196.6681T354T1810@magg.net> <536.6682T956T1550@gramercy.ios.com>
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- In article <536.6682T956T1550@gramercy.ios.com>,
- Pacarana <larrymb@gramercy.ios.com> wrote:
- >>and gone (IMHO) witness the lessening of television viewing among
- >>young people....
-
- > Well, if you call something like 3.5-5 hours a day inconsiderable then
- >perhaps they would be set up for failure.
-
- Yes, people spend a lot of time (too much) time on 'entertainment'
- these days. A set-box is, essentially, another entertainment
- appleance (and if it's hooked into the net or cable, it will
- probably have some informational value.) But this is
- COMP.sys.amiga... - as in computer. A computer has all the
- capabilities of a set top, plus a whole bunch more. There is
- the difference.
- There may be a huge market for set-tops; I don't know, and,
- frankly, I don't care. It's not one of my interests.
-
- >>Don't forget that many Amigans are attracted and held by the exquisite
- >>operating system that you helped craft and not by the eye candy and
- >>video magic.
-
- > And don't forget that it was the eye candy and magic that is what the Amiga
- >was originally mostly known for and what it had when it was able to sell a
- >reasonable amount of units.
-
- This is true. The amiga's eye-popping performance did spark a lot of
- interest. The amiga can have that same eye-popping performance again
- if we get some up-to-date hardware for the OS to run on. And it
- doesn't necessarily have to be 'custom'. D. Haynie just wrote a
- short little article explaining the *effective* difference between
- custom chips and off-the-shelf ones: none.
- The agument here is that people want eye-popping performance
- at 1280x1040, not just a video resolutions. What looks cool for
- a TV loses its luster when you put it on a 21" monitor.
-
- Ross.
-
-