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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo
Message-ID: <1991May18.140621.13296@crash.cts.com>
Date: 18 May 91 14:06:21 GMT
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What day did you go to the LA Video Expo? I was there from about 11am to
about 3pm yesterday (Thursday 5/16) and walked to and from the "Commodore"
(Century Computers) booth at least half a dozen times and every time
the M.A.S.T. (at least I assume he was with them) rep was fiddling
with one, and then another Colorburst trying to get it to properly
work.  He was hunched over the thing with a screwdriver and I did 
see, very briefly, a photographic looking landscape shot on the screen
along with some cycling-color test pattern bars stuff but never the
nice-sounding display you described. 

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On a semi-related topic, NewTek's booth was easily the largest 
crowd magnet in the hall. They had people standing in front of their
displays up to ten deep at times. The new (version 2.0 or something??)
Toaster software they were demoing has some truly wonderful 
transition effects in it. I *think* I heard Kiki, the demonstrator
say it would be a $100 software upgrade but I could be wrong so don't
take that to the bank yet.  She was doing amazing things with it
like "ripping" the screen in half like a sheet of paper, swriling
spiraling transitions, water-dripping wipes that filled the screen
from the bottom as drops of images fell from the top, one rather
useless but cute effect of falling silhouettes of sheep, and so on.

NewTek also had a bunch of their $3995 all-in-one Toaster boxes there -
by now I hope folks know that NewTek has NOT designed and mfd their
own computer, but they are OEMming Amiga 2500s, and slapping their own
nameplate on them.  In fact I believe I'm correct in stating that the
very pretty 8-page foldout brochure they were handing out does not
mention the word "Amiga" in it anywhere, even once.