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From: sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commodore already has THE BEST AD for MultiMedia!!
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Date: 9 Oct 90 17:28:12 GMT
Reply-To: sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland)
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Irwin Corey??
	Two weeks ago I attended an on-site (An Amiga dealer site)
demonstration of AmigaVision by a Commodore representative (I do
not recall his name) at Computer's Plus in Daytona Beach, FL.  The
first thing he showed was a 3-4 minute segment from a LaserDisk 
developed FOR Commodore by an outside company discussng the Amiga
and Multimedia.  I believe that the speaker was "Professor Irwin
Corey", the guy who pretends to be a professor and acts REALLY
off the wall.  Then there was about 2 minutes of a "grab 'em by the
BA**S" (Not intended to be sexist ;^), fast-paced segment of
Commodore's "view of what MultiMedia is", according to the CBM 
rep..  Some shots included a man in the lunar car being buzzed
by several Amiga animated ships (like the ones in BattleStar
Galactica), split screens with stuff happening on them, and a 
really nifty piece which started out saying "Would you like to
see every painting in the Louvre?", followed by a 4-way split
screen "screaming" through digitized images of every painting
in the Louvre (each quarter must have been page flipping at 
10-20 images per second).  Then a hand appears over the screen
and touches one of the flipping "quarters" of the screen.  One
image is selected.  The hand then proceeds to use the screen as
if it were a touch screen, enlarging the image to full screen,
getting info on it, altering it, etc., all by the touch of a 
finger.  Then more whiz-bang fast page flipping of ray-traced
images/animation, digitized images, and lots of other stuff.
This really took my breath away.  The final few seconds were 
various images/animations containing the word MultiMedia and 
Amiga.  This stuff is GREAT.  There is enough there to make
several 15 or 30 second commercials.  Although the individual
images go by very fast, you still SEE all of them, but
it leaves you wanting more.  Much more.  I asked the Commodore
rep if I could make a video tape copy of this to show the video
group I am in at the University of Florida (Crosscut Film and
Video Society).  There are a lot of people in this club who
are Video and Film majors (one just got a business loan of
$50,000 to open a video studio in Miami!!) who would fall in
love with the Amiga if they saw this!  However, the rep stated
that he had signed a form prohibiting him from distributing 
any part of this demo.  :^(  This stuff is mainly for dealer
demonstation and Computer's Plus will have it in a couple of
weeks as well, but he has to sign a similar form.  

	Has anyone SEEN this as well?  Anyone from Commodore care
to comment?  I think that CBM has perfect footage for a series of
commercials which would BLOW away the IBM multimedia stuff.  Any
chance of it being used in this way?

Scott Sutherland
sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu