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Quoth Joe Greco on Wed, 13 November:
: it should be much easier to do a 320 * 200 display (64000 pixels,
: and at 16 bit depth that's 128Kbytes of data) as opposed to a 1024 * 768
: display (786432 pixels, and at 24 bit depth that's 2.4Mbytes of data).

IIRC, NTSC runs at 352x240, but 12 bits is plenty for color.
That's ~1 Mbit/frame uncompressed, ->~100 Kbit/frame MPEG-2.
(Most high-budget films are recorded 24 celluloid fps.)
DSS uses 3Mbit/sec to encode Pay Per View channels, which
sounds about right.