At 14:54 28/06/99 -0300, you wrote:
>> High costs? Complex HW?
>> Hmmm, think of this, there are sony digital camera's that store your
>> pictures directly to floppy disk, compressed in JPEG.
>> Those camera's use a chip, capable of realtime JPEG compression. I don't
>> know about decompression, I haven't had the opportunity to examine the
>> camera up close, but I can imagine that it exists.
>> Don't invent the wheel twice, look around...
>
> Hey, you want to compare mass-procuced Sony's digital camera's
>with home-made hardware for MSX? You want to compare the costs?
> It's so ingenuous as saying "hey, MoonSound is much more expensive
>than my PC Creative Labs sound-card, it should be more cheap because it's
>worse!"...
Well, maybe we can find in a online electronic parts' shop (Jameco, etc.)
a J-PEG compression/decompression chip. But I think we must wait 4 the ESE
DSP, 'cause they 're going to place a J-PEG compression/decompression
routine into it too (plus SCC n' MSX-Audio emulation, etc).
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