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From: gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: AmigaExpo - DCTV, HAM-E, and Colorburst Impressions
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.150026.6737@dialogic.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 15:00:26 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.225204.13633@ariel.unm.edu> <13637@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar22.195518.12829@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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In article <1991Mar22.195518.12829@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <13637@helios.TAMU.EDU> cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes:
>>I dissagree on the original posters feelings about MAST.
>>YES, they had a very plain booth.
>>YES, they have a plain box.
>>YES, they seemed like a garage operation.
>>BUT this means NOTHING....
>>
>>All you should be worried about is the performance, and the price...

I would have to disagree, Chris, for the reason that Etan makes so
clear below.

>	And company reputation, of which MAST has a terrible one.
>Do the words INFINITY MACHINE mean anything to you? They also
>advertised this flicker-fixer device for way too long. None of
>which ever shipped.

Exactly.  And the fact that the booth they had at the Expo was so
horrible, I would wonder if Colorburst would ever ship.  If I had the
vaporware reputation of MAST, I would make sure that my public
appearances instilled faith in people.

>squares. Absolutely nothing eye-catching, not even a good still
>image.

That's what I saw.  Nothing. Zip. Nada.  A white box that color-cycled
really well.  I'm not even sure if the thing works.  You can quote
source code availability, transfer to laser disk service, and
everything else from the MAST literature, but I'm not even sure if
they can support the product when it seems they can't even support
themselves in selling it.

And without consumer confidence, MAST will lose sales.


-gerry


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