Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dg!vis01!mpogue From: mpogue@vis01.webo.dg.com (Mike Pogue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Access to Cable Company's Equipment Message-ID: <1271@dg.dg.com> Date: 30 Jan 91 22:17:51 GMT References: <43097@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <8261@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Sender: root@dg.dg.com Reply-To: mpogue@vis01.webo.dg.com (Mike Pogue) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 30 |> Yes, but anything you produce with their equipment must |> |> 1) be for non-profit uses, and |> 2) aired on the local cable station. |> |> Actually, it doesn`t *have* to be aired, but the point is that public access |> television is not meant for commercial or private use. |> |> Further, you may find that they require you to take a course (possibly |> free) in the use of their equipment. Many of them have Amiga's for |> video work (at least, that's what I hear). |> This is the way it works here in Framingham, MA. I took the course, which was basically "how to use the switcher and focus the cameras." Private stuff was not permitted, but everybody was encouraged to develop local programming for telecast over the local Framingham channel. The switcher was old, and not too reliable. DId have two nice Sony professional cameras, though. No Amigas, however. And no money to upgrade anything. -- Mike Pogue Data General Corp. Speaking for myself, not my company.... Westboro, MA.