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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Toaster news
Summary: What does this mean?
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Apr 91 06:07:21 GMT
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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  There's an interesting tidbit of news in this week's MacWeek magazine.
Quoting from an article about the National Association of Broadcasters
show, to be held in Las Vegas next week:

"NewTek Inc.  The maker of the popular Video Toaster, a Commodore
Amiga-based video editing system, will announce a standalone Toaster
that can read Macintosh files directly.
  Price at $3,995 and due in June, the new Toaster no longer requires
users to buy an Amiga.  "We've taken the cool parts of the Amiga and
put it together with the Toaster into a single box," said Steve
Hartford, NewTek product manager.
  With the current Toaster, Mac-generated graphics have to be
converted and output as an NTSC (National Television System Committee)
video signal before being brought into the system.
  The new Toaster will be able to read Macintosh disks containing
files in PICT, Postscript and 3DGF (3-D Geometry Format), as well as
FACT, a file format supported by Electric Image Inc.'s animation
program."

[End of quote]

  What I find interesting is the second paragraph "We've taken the
cool parts of the Amiga and ...".  Does this mean they've licensed the
Amiga hardware from Commodore, or do you think they're buying up
Amigas and ripping the guts out of them?


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