Convinced. 16bit is too much resolution for most cases. But even 12bit makes a big difference (post by Sighound36) for measurement purposes. I was looking for an inexpensive general purpose scope, which just doesn't exist. Of course I didn't expect this resolution for the whole bandwidth - surely noise can be easily reduced with reduced bandwidth?
Why are the 16bit ADCs so expensive? This has nothing to do with the real production costs, the development has to be paid. With appropriate numbers of units, this should become much cheaper very quickly?
Dream aside. I would just like to have the accuracies of good multimeters in the measured values on the screen next to the curve image and one less measuring device on the table.
Thanks for all the clarification. It's not as simple as I thought, probably also because there is no mass market for it.
But interesting: Actually, this was only a side issue, originally it was about the benefit of a doubled investment...