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From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo
Message-ID: <1991May19.073718.16666@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 07:37:18 GMT
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In article <1991May18.140621.13296@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>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. 
>
>---
>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. 

I read Videographer the other day at the library.                 
VO just recently covered everything there is to know about 
doing Video on Amiga's. Camcorder BTW has been very 
very very enthusiastic about Amiga's with Toaster's. 
I think NEW-TEK is trying to steal CBM's show.                          
While CBM is churning out NEW-TEK brochures like 
menus to there customers, NEW-TEK has been claiming the 
market is their's. I would believe they are soooo anxious 
to turn the CBM market in thier direction. 
Anyways, I read in VO that the two top honchos at New-Tek 
are MAC-Enthusiasts. The only reason they picked the Amiga's 
was becuase they had a blitter and a low-price. 
Soooooo if MAC offered them a better deal, say good-bye to the 
toaster. Also they said that they hold all the shares becuase 
they have been slowly building the toaster rather than 
ganging up with somebody like Sony. You know these guys 
are getting rich. Probably better with an Amiga for now. 
Lets hope a real Amiga-Enthusiast company beats them up. 
How about a Toaster emulator. We really need some competition.
That's what keeps the market running.   
 
 Later