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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo
Message-ID: <1991May20.220317.10500@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 22:03:17 GMT
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In article <1991May19.073718.16666@ariel.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:

>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. 


You know, I'm wondering... C= may not be interested in having the Amiga
strongly identified with the video toaster and may be in favor of co-
marketing the 2500 under the Toster name.

Its looking like NeXT is going to go under and C= may want the name Amiga
identified with a high end computer since they are certainly after that 
market with the 3000UX.  It seems like C= is certainly in a posistion
to force their will on NewTek more than vice versa.  I 'think' that you'd
have a very hard time getting the toaster to work with another platform 
...especially a Mac.

I know that for example, C= has rules that CDTV is never to be called a
computer and it is never to be displayed in the same room with an Amiga.
And I seriously doubt that this is to protect CDTV from the Amiga name.
They are probably trying to protect the Amiga name from CDTV ...for a
couple of reasons.  To keep the name Amiga associated with a 'powerful'
computer as already mentioned; and also to protect Amiga in case of a
CDTV failure.

And who knows what C= has up their sleeve.  But even I wouldn't want to
see the Amiga marketed as the Amiga/Toaster video thing.  C= may well 
have forced NewTek to not use the Amiga name in a video specific ad.
There is probably going to be two markets here.  One is a rather prfessional
video market and the other will be the PC/video market.  There may be
some less expensive alternatives to the Toaster on line.  Don't you need
some other equipment with the Toaster ...?  In any case, I wouldn't jump
to the conclusion that NewTek wants to dump Amiga.  I would say C= had
a much better chance at developing and marketing an alternative to the
Toaster than NewTek had at developing and marketing an alternative to an
Amiga. 



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