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From: rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
Message-ID: <5967@pbhyb.PacBell.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 00:05:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.021658.22070@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: rkmossm@PacBell.COM (Richard Mossman)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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I read an article about the Video Toaster the other day that commented on the
possibility of them making one for the Mac soon.  I called NewTek and talked
to one of the salestypes.  She said there were NO plans for a Mac-based Video
Toaster in ANY future.  What the article was referring to was the Amiga 2000
based turnkey system that they currently sell and using a Mac with the video
output converted to NTSC as one of the video inputs.  Nothing more.  You can
do that now for (that's right) $4,000.

What I would really like to see is someone come out with a direct connect 
Mac device that does Toaster-level stuff with a built in NTSC conversion
for $2,000.  That would make my beloved Mac into a consumer level video 
machine for a reasonable price.  Reasonable, albeit not Cheap.
-- 
Richard K. Mossman  {att,bellcore,sun,ames,decwrl}!pacbell!rkmossm
415/823-0974
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