Re: SecondSight & TrueColor

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

>Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@netcom.com) wrote:
>:   Don't worry, we'll make it worth the wait. Really. I found a way
>: to make a rather nice easy upgrade to the board, which allows
>: one to display TrueColor.

>How? Care to explain? What type of upgrade path? If we are willing to pay,
>can we have true colour now?

  I was probably a bit hasty, but I have more information now. The
Bt481 we can get in good quantity and at a price about half what we 
were able to get the Bt478 for.

  The Bt481 is just like the 478, except that the Bt481 supports
TrueColor - i.e., actual honest-to-God 24-bit pixels. It also
support 15-bit (5-5-5) and 16-bit (5-6-5) "HighColor" modes;
these are similar to TrueColor, in that each pixel directly translates
into RGB signals, instead of going through a palette, but have
fewer bits per channel.

  So, the Second Sight will take care of people's video needs
well into the next century, it looks like. :-)

 (Maximum resolution of 640x480 at 16.7M, or TrueColor, mode).

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