> In a message of 27 Jul 96 Steve Corry wrote to me:

 >  >> I've got an EGS Spectrum here.  It is a 24 bit graphics card...

 >  SC> The quality's meant to be good on them, isn't it?  Sorta, TV quality. 
 >  SC> Is that  where all those JPegs spring from :->

 > It will handle up to 16.7 million colours and resolution far better than TV 
 > quality.  A lot of people think TV quality means good, it doesn't.  The 
 > quality of TV pictures is poor compared to the resolutions acheivable from 
 > modern computers.

 > The best jpegs and gifs that you see on BBS's and so on come from digitised 
 > photographs, which are far ahead of the resolution obtainable on a computer.

Kool.  Yeah, I've got a few pegs, but as you can understand with an a5oo, the 
obvious res in grainy.

However, some of the images are first class, so I can imagine that, if this is 
what one can get on a humble 5oo, higher systems would be incerdible.

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