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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: Amiga Video Toaster for the MAC
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Date: 6 May 91 18:04:25 GMT
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In article <17416@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>In article <1991Apr29.183148.15463@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>
>>And you expect NewTek to counsel the purchasers when they think they may
>>be making a wrong purchase?!  "I'm sorry, but I don't think you should buy our
>>product."  
>
>If appropriate, yes.
>

  The Video Toaster is an ingenious product. Do you also complain when people
buy VCR's and don't get digital recordings? Where you complaining when video
cameras were released that couldn't handle bright light sources, or white
clothing? All of these are available with $100,000 machines, but not with 
$500 machines. You are getting a $1500 hardware product that does more than
anything in its price range, and can handle professional television
broadcasting. Don't expect HBO or CNN to suddenly go Video Toaster. Expect
the local cable real estate channel or the TV guide or the guy who video
tapes weddings to use it. I have seen this computer used by many cable
companies, and in fact I am associated with some productions. If you sat and
watched the broadcasts, you would not know that it was done with a Video
Toaster or DCTV or anything else in its class. They are very professional,
and they do an excellent job for the price paid.
  It no longer takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to make music videos,
tutorial tapes, documentaries, closed circuit broadcasting, etc. The Video
Toaster makes TV broadcasting available to the common man, and the studio
on a budget.

>
>-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --




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           David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN   
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