CompuServe Messages

Paul, There was a long write-up in Variety on the "Commodore Amiga" wich "runs the NewTek Video Toaster board". It said that the the Toaster allowed the produces of a show called Sea Quest that will appear in the fall to do a show for about a million per episode with special effects that otherwise would have nixed the show. Because of the cost effectiveness of the Amiga, Paramount is purchasing 30 amiga/Toaster combos with a NewTek ASDG combo modifed by (or per the spec of) Joe Conti to parallel ligtwave rendering on 14 Amigas. It also said that the Amiga was about 20% slower than a silicon graphics but that would change in the next few months. It also pointed out that the Amiga/Toaster workstation was one tenth the cost of the SG machine with comperable functionality. So the Amiga will never be a giant killer in the general purpose machine or DTP world. But it appears that Silicon Graphics may be in some serious trouble in the entertainment graphics world. wmc – via Autopilot!