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Originally Posted by Foebane
I noticed that all the magazines by Future Publishing used a new method of reproducing images.
With this new method, the pictures looked cleaner, better (for the most part) and were free of phosphor dots and scanlines and tube bulges. The clarity of the pictures (for the most part) were so good, that you could achieve the same results by using WinUAE today and then printing them out on your inkjet.
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I noticed the transition too, but was less impressed. The captures were often
too 'perfect', missing nice effects of a CRT such as higher contrast and rounding of the pixels. On the Amiga it wasn't so bad, but some other platforms such as the ZX Spectrum suffered horribly. Compared to a composite display the images were dull and lifeless, and the graphical limitations of the machine were exposed.
But the worst thing was that since nobody had LCD displays in those days the magazine images never reflected what it would look like on your own monitor or TV.