Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!well!farren From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <24443@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 26 Apr 91 03:24:42 GMT References: <1991Apr18.161346.3409@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr19.234710.26180@ariel.unm.edu> <24371@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Apr23.200444.18839@visix.com> Lines: 35 brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) writes: >In article <24371@well.sf.ca.us>, farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren) writes: >> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: >> >> >One of the most important things that Kevin mentioned, in my opinion, is that >> >CD-I has some Hollywood professionals behind it. >> >> Or, perhaps, you mean >> that successful Hollywood professional, George Lucas, and his venture into >> computer graphics, Pixar, which just laid off damn near all of their >> employees? >George Lucas, and Lucasfilms (or LucasArts Enterainment LTD) has nothing to >do with PIXAR now. Not now, true - but Lucas founded Pixar. And sold it off when it became clear that it wasn't the panacea he hoped it would be. The point is that "Hollywood professionals" have NOTHING to do or say about success in ANY industry - not even their own. >PIXAR was the Computer Graphics Divison of Lucasfilms before they broke off * were sold off >to form thier own company. If you wish to be accurate here, George Lucas' >venture into computer graphics is ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) Hardly. ILM is a special effects house. Computer graphics is a very, very small part of what they do. As for Lucasfilm Games, they exist because George Lucas likes games. Hollywood professionalism has nothing to do with it. -- Mike Farren farren@well.sf.ca.us