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From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore already has THE BEST AD for MultiMedia!!
Message-ID: <15113@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 12:53:25 GMT
References: <1164@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu>
Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing)
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In article <1164@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
>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

Glad you liked it.....what you saw was an edited version of the piece
that was put together for the A3000 launch.  We are making it available
to all of our dealers (through the POS system) and the sales force will
also be able to show it at appropriate customer situations.
-- 


Howard S. Diamond  Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines
1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380
diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com  215-431-9142
MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!