Re: TurboRez Rumors

[cust_ts@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <2kkfbp$ndt@news.service.uci.edu>,
Jimmy Shaw <eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>In article <2kk6v8$k62@nuscc.nus.sg>,
>Lim Thye Chean <ltchean@iss.nus.sg> wrote:
>>The Prisoner (prisoner@tsoft.net) wrote:
>
>[info on the next "release date" of TurboRez deleted]
>
>>: But the Project definitely is NOT dead, by any means. Speaking to Bill,
>>: he said "I've spent over 5 years working on this thing, and I'm not giving
>>: up now that it's so close..." or something to that effect. It's a rather
>>: impressive product (with all the surprises you guys will find out when it's
>>: released) and I've seen it take a 640x480x256 Picture and display it about
>>: as good as a nice IBM Viewer (and looked better than the Pic did on the
>>: Amiga).
>>
>>True. I saw the TurboRez myself in a GS with my own eyes, and can verify this
>>is true. In fact, in my opinion, the display is better than the IBM.
>
>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.

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