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From: baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga in cinema (again)
Summary: Amigas in St:TNG?
Message-ID: <1353@percival.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 88 19:55:13 GMT
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In article <1832@loral.UUCP> dml@loral.UUCP (Dave Lewis) writes:
>  Back to Amigas -- I've never seen one on the new Star Trek (the only show I
>ever watch). 
>-- 
>Dave Lewis      Loral Instrumentation      San Diego    (619) 282-3341

Well, last June, I got to talk with Rick Sternback, the Illustrator for the
new Star Trek series.  I was showing him some Trek related animation that
did with our products on the Amiga.  He informed me that they had just 
bought a bunch of Mac II's.  They are remodeling the Bridge set, and wanted
actual video displays for some of the control panels, rather than backlit 
cells.  He said they looked at Amigas and Mac II's.  The Mac II they saw 
had the 1024x780 card with 256 simultaneous colors and a Multisynch monitor.
He said, it blew them away so they got those.  It looks like we'll have 
similar capabilities on the Amiga, in the near future.  But, they wanted
it NOW and not RSN.  Paramount makes 10 million bucks per ST:TNG episode;
they can afford the Mac II's.  They plan on using them mainly for control
panels, with lights that turn on/off, anly some color cycling.
They're going to have a harder time if they want to do some sophisticated
animation.  So, you're not likely to see many Amigas on ST:TNG.  I just
hope we don't see an Authorized Apple Dealership in the background in 
episodes taking place on a starbase.  

-- 
	-Ken Baer.  					 
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