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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo
Message-ID: <1991May30.053627.24283@crash.cts.com>
Date: 30 May 91 05:36:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from uunix@triton.unm.edu

 
If NewTek wishes to get the Macfolk into the Toaster market via the "Trojan
Horse," that's their choice.  And so long as it's as crippled a solution as
it is (in the sense that they still have own and use an Amiga) I don't see
why they shouldn't make money off of them.
 
What I DON'T like is the fact that they seem to be totally ignoring the
the fact that if it were not for the Amiga, they would have no product. 
The Amiga was leading in the video market long before the Toaster was
released...NewTek just gave us a champion.  
 
I'm afraid of them pulling an Electronic Arts and forgetting their
roots...forgetting where it was that they started.  I have very little
respect at all for companies like EA and Byte-by-Byte because they seem to
have forgotten that it was the Amiga market that really got them going.  
 
I have little use for the DVEs, and no use at all for ToasterPaint.  But
to me, Lightwave alone is worth $1595.  
 
If NewTek doesn't get on the ball and start producing versions that provide
component output, S-Video, etc. they're going to loose their hardware
advantage to the competition very shortly.  They also need to incorporate a
GOOD chroma-key (that luminance keyer just doesn't cut it).  
 
But Lightwave is another story.  Even though it doesn't raytrace (I know it
raytraces shadows), I don't think anything short of Renderman for the Amiga
will beat it on rendering.
 
Sean
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