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- From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
- Subject: Re: Why I bought a CD-I yesterday and what Commodore needs to do about it.
- In-Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com's message of 14 Dec 92 18: 36:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <JKH.92Dec22000922@whisker.lotus.ie>
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- Organization: Lotus Development Ireland
- References: <JKH.92Dec14032800@whisker.lotus.ie> <10285@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:09:22 GMT
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- a CDTV, but someone had stated that CD-I were better. He said yes,
- only look at this "Smithsonian" disc. He started it (before he was
- ...
- Not any difference to CDTV. Then he proceeded a bit and showed me some
- of the pictures: they looked really BAD! I was surprised, as I had read
-
- I don't get it. I've got the same title here, and I'm looking at some
- of the paintings and other objects with significant color content, and
- they look just great!
-
- By comparison, I brought up some of the most colorful NewTek / public
- HAM images I could find and there's just no comparison at all.
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- Technically speaking, HAM gives you ~4K colors. DYUV gives you close
- to 24 bit, but using much the same "tricks" that DCTV uses. If you want
- straight RGB quality, the CD-I will do RGB 5-5-5. (32K colors).
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- No matter how you slice it, that's more color information, and YES,
- some of the titles I have seen make very good use of it. Peter, ask
- your lonely CD-I salesman to show you "Harvest of the Sun". Browse a
- good part of the collection before making up your mind.
-
- Jordan
-
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- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
- I DO NOT SPEAK FOR LOTUS - IT HAS PLENTY OF LAWYERS TO DO THAT FOR IT ALREADY
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