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From: dg49+@andrew.cmu.edu (David A. Gillespie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: VIDEO magazine article...
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Date: 13 Oct 90 16:06:52 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Just in case anyone's interested (and all of you should be interested in
seeing the Amiga getting some well-deserved attention), there were three
multimedia articles in the latest VIDEO magazine, two of which talked
about the Amiga.

The first, called "Multimedia: Video's Newest Wave" deals with the whole
concept of multimedia systems and focuses specifically on Commodore's
CDTV interactive disc format, and Amigas in general.

The second, called "3 Amigas" takes a look at three different people,
doing three different things with multimedia and using three different
budgets all with one thing in common:  they all use Amigas.  Also in the
article is a mini-review of the Toaster.  At the end of the article is a
listing of prices that each of the people spent on their systems,
ranging from $69,000 down to $2700.  (All of these prices include ALL
video equipment).  

The third article, called "Ultimedia" is a comparitively short (compared
to the other two) article about the AVID/1 Media Composer.  This system
was originally based on the Mac IIx.  It talks about how amazing it is
because it can capture material at 30 frames per second (ooooohhh...). 
The only price they mention is the cost of the video board for the
Macintosh -- $3000.  And it takes 30 Megs of memory to store 1 minute of
video!  Oh, well.  Guess I won't be putting those old movies into THIS
system... ;-)

Overall, very promising for the Amiga.  And there was one thing that I
really did like to see in the article -- one of the people (the one with
the middle-priced system) got his training from a place called Video
Data Services.  And he said that "They really pushed the Amiga".  I
guess SOME people know what they're doing... ;-)

The one thing I didn't like in the article was that they said that
Amigas were "originally designed for games...".  I DON'T think so...

By the way, since I didn't mention it, this is the November issue of
"VIDEO Magazine" and has a picture of the 2500 on the cover (multimedia
was their feature topic).

Dave