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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Video Toaster (cont.)
Message-ID: <29537@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 90 00:06:28 GMT
References: <72770@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <72770@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> liebm@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark Lieb) writes:
>                   The toaster is a board that is added to an Amiga 2500 (or
>3000).  The reason people are doubting it is because they feel stupid because
>they probably just spent $50,000.00 on a piece of equipment that doesn't do 1/3
>the shit the toaster does.

We just finished Amiga Day here at Southwest Research Institute.
Sponsored by the great guys at Amazing Computers and Donald Duskey from
Commodore. The Amazing crew did a wonderful job of demostrating the
Video Toaster, AmigaVision, the A3000 & A3000UX & lots more
(AmaxII...). Generated some interest & some very interesting
conversations which, unfortunately, I probably shouldn't repeat.

Anyway. Some of the guys from the video group came by and "were quite
impressed", so went back & got their boss, who had recently purchased a
complete production video system. His answer was "But what can it do
for me?"...

>but basically it is one of
>those things that certain people won't believe even if they do see it.

On the other hand, The JumboTron scoreboard for the San Antonio Stars
plays pre-recorded videos produced by First Video here in S.A. using
Amigas. They are not allowed to go live on the JumboTron because Apple
is providing funding for (?) of this stuff and Apple will withdraw
funding if live video produced by an Amiga is shown on the JT. Apple
has provided over $52k in MacII equipment and the Stars people still
can't get an acceptible image on the JumboTron with the Mac, so no
animations.

I guess Apple believes what they have seen :^)

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882
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