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From: craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley)
Subject: Re: CDTV VCR support/control - infrared ?  serial ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.072522.8782@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Craig Hubley & Associates
References: <1990Aug16.182516.2512@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <13853@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 07:25:22 GMT

In article <13853@cbmvax.commodore.com> amiga!cbmvax!daveh writes:
>In article <1990Aug16.182516.2512@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes:
>
>>I happened to overhear a NewTek person tell a Commodore person that the first
>>time NewTek had heard of the A3000 was "at the launch".  Therefore the Toaster
>>doesn't work on the A3000.  
>
>Simply not true.  All Developers in the Developer Support Program knew about 

Just reporting what I heard.  Can't vouch for its accuracy.  The Commodore
people asked "who in our organization are you interfacing with about the
A3000?", and the (senior) NewTek person responded "Nobody.  The first we heard
about the A3000 was at the launch."

>>Commodore sure has a lot to learn.  Their press kit didn't mention the CDTV at
>>all, that I could find.  
>
>Well, SIGGRAPH is hardly the place for CDTV, I would think.  That's a consumer

Tiger Media didn't think so, nor did the half dozen people I hauled over to
have a look at the thing...

>product, like a TV or VCR.  SIGGRAPH is pretty much for professional graphics
>stuff.  The A3000 and the Video Toaster certainly qualify for this, but if you
>had to ask a question about CDTV at SIGGRAPH, mine would be "why is it there
>at all", not "why aren't they pushing it".

Dead wrong.  SIGGRAPH is crawling with serious multimedia developers.  Apple
was courting them.  So were several other companies.  These guys show up to
see who's got the hot box that they want to work with... a lot of them will
target the low end immediately or as soon as it is feasible.  This was a golden 
opportunity to show them who really has the goods.  But it will have to wait
now until next year... when the CDTV is old news.  It really needs the help
at launch time, not a year later... by then they will see cheap Macs, though...

One look at the SIGGRAPH program would show that there were panels and
papers devoted specifically to multimedia issues... and an ENTIRE FORUM of
nothing but hypermedia pieces... if anyone had bothered to look, that is.  
Sorry Dave, nice try, but this is the good old "sure to fail" Commodore
marketing pseudo-strategy that we all know and hate...

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

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