POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future Server Time
10 Oct 2024 21:16:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back to the future  
From: andrel
Date: 23 Jul 2008 14:46:22
Message: <48877CBA.3040500@hotmail.com>
On 23-Jul-08 10:02, Invisible wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> 
>> The Amiga was the de facto standard for television quality 
>> broadcasting, as many have also mentioned.
> 
> Really? De facto? I mean, I know it was used by a few people, but I 
> didn't think it had reached the level of "standard". (But obviously, I 
> don't work in TV.)

At that time no other machine came close to broadcast quality nor was 
there hardware genlock support on another machine (at least for an 
affordable prize), so anybody who did anything with TV used one. Just as 
the Mac was the standard for DTP and (I think) the Atari for MIDI.


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