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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (17592)	11/3/2000 8:17:52 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tench, Re: Thus, it's pointless to try and draw the line between bandwidth and floating-point capabilities, because one without the other is meaningless. That's utter nonsense. Doug

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (17592)	11/3/2000 8:22:17 PM
From: Paul Ma	Respond to of 275872

TV has antialiasing which makes a big difference. If you look at a game with Voodoo 5 at 4x FSAA at 640x 480, it looks pretty good too. Paul

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (17592)	11/4/2000 3:57:34 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<I wonder how Playstation 2 games look so beautiful at 640x480 compared to PC games at 1024x768. Kind of tells me that the PC game designers really need to get their butts in gear if they truly want to push the experience of games on the PC (relative to PSX2).> Welcome to the wonders of analog anti-aliasing ;) Ever try reading a document on a PS2? It's completely awful unless the font size is really big. Blurry images (and low resolutions) are ok for games, but really don't make for good still-image (esp text) quality. That said, there are some really sweet TV monitors out there - with 4x the resolution and about double the refresh rate [compared to normal TVs]. And that's discounting plasma, TFTs etc. -fyo (yay! now that SI has dropped its NDB promotional offer, they would actually let me pay for a membership)