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From: dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Will the Amiga survive? Part II
Message-ID: <227@kesmai.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 89 20:05:09 GMT
References: <434@accsys.UUCP>
Organization: Kesmai Corporation, Charlottesville, VA
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In article <434@accsys.UUCP>, wizard@accsys.UUCP (Christoph Brand) writes:
> To produce a nice image without disturbing jaggies, you have to work in
> hi-res/interlace. Now...have you ever tried to put a nice hi-res title onto
> video? It works, but you still see the flickering if you use both a
> professional genlock and videorecorder. Do you think the customers like
> flickering titles? Maybe in the US it's not so bad, because you work with
> 60 Hz, but in Europe....
> 
> What I want to say is that I don't see what you could use the Amiga for in
> business. Raytracing animations are great, but who wants them, still
> pictures is no good on Amiga and with Desktop Presentation you've got
> problems with the flickering.
One point that needs to be made here is that my understanding is that the
flickering is intrinsic to the NTSC or PAL systems.  No matter how much money
you spend the video signals in these systems are still interlaced and thus
still have the potential for flicker.  Period.  A more expensive system
could allow you to use more colors than the Amiga hi-res allows to give
a smoother contrast gradation and thus less flicker but a color title that
isn't carefully contrast controlled will flicker just as badly on the most
expensive workstation as it does on the Amiga when it gets transferred to
video.

David Albrecht