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Re: [LUG] A couple of questions

 

On Thursday 06 November 2008 13:13, Simon Waters wrote:
> Tom Potts wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 November 2008 22:17, Dave wrote:
> >
> > As for displaying the video -
> > you could watch uncompressed video at higher def than HD  20 years ago
> > without special hardware.
>
> You sure there wasn't hardware magic going on?
It just needs to be able to move ~10MBytes a second around - not a lot to ask 
even then
Tom te tom te tom
>
> I remember watching video on commodity laptops ~1988, but it wasn't full
> screen, and it was black and white because colour LCDs were still beyond
> the pockets of mere techies.
>
> On the other hand colour TV had been around for a while...
>
> > IS it just me or are things gong backwards?
>
> I wonder that every day.
>
> On the other hand I just did some stuff on Debian Lenny and decided that
> at least that stuff had moved forward be it ever so small.


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