Re: Why not just reproduce the second sight card?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

srkh28@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Ive been doing a few power, thermal and timing tests on Carte Blanche
> as its BOM gets finalized into production with Alex's SVGA code for
> CB. I think he's done a really good job (actually, thats a total
> understatement!). However, to do some more accurate comparisons, it
> would be good to see some images from the next best thing, which I
> think is the Second Sight video card. Would anyone have any images of
> what the Second Sight card can do?. With the testing Ive been doing,
> its been really amazing to see the quality of images his code has been
> producing.. I mean.. can anything else do this on a modern LCD
> display??!
>
> http://www.applelogic.org/AL/CBSVGAbeta1.JPG
>
>
> Im hoping Alex can add a "Digital picture capture" option, so we can
> use Apple II images in their native digital form, which should be a
> lot better than my crusty Sony cybershot of a LCD screen.

Actually, the only thing that matters is how it *actually looks*
on the display of interest.  A digital "capture" would not show
any of the display's resampling artifacts (if any) at all.

-michael

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