Re: TurboRez Rumors

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Tero Sand (cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI) wrote:

: >Not trying to start a flame war or anything: how do you figure that a
: >640x480x256 display is better than, oh let's say, 800x600x65536 or 
: >640x480x16.7 million display?  It *might* look better/as good if you are
: >displaying dithered pictures like GIF (which is limited to 256 anyway,)
: >but not when you display things like Jpegs.

: Not trying to flame you or anything :-), but if you want to avoid flame
: wars, you should try your damnest to see things as if they were not what
: your first instincts tell you. In this case, I don't interpret Thy
: Chean the way you seem to. Actually, I don't think anyone in their right
: mind could say an 8-bit picture can rival a 16- or more-bit picture; the
: only context in which TC's comment makes sense is that he's comparing
: two identical resolutions.

First, I am Thye Chean, not Thy Chean. :)

And yes, you are right. I am comparing two identical resolution. The pixels
of TR is round, and looks less jaggy; and the colours look richer. 

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: >Jimmy Shaw				OS/2: It costs less, it does more.
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