CompuServe Messages

Bill, You're right in saying at worst the Amiga is a darn good character generator….which brings me back to where we started this string. That's why I'm going to try one with my new company. There are other consequences as well. Cubicomp and Targa, to name two firms, have reduced prices….some say…because the Amiga is CAPABLE of grabbing a lot of their business. That market is the folks I was talking about in the beginning. I'm a video not a computer person and don't know a hell of a lot about this stuff…but from what little I do know, the Amiga is capable of real good stuff if someone would get the pieces on the market. I agree with Ben Blish's list of what needs to be done from the internal graphics end. Now that real genlocks are appearing on the market, we also need all those digitizers and buffers just over the horizon, along with a real editor controller package…preferably running off timecode and plugging into U-Matic, 1" (CMX or otherwise) and S-VHS (if anyone ever sees it works and it turns out to be a real medium)..along with BETA. I'm aware that I'm beyond the home video hobbiest area. But it seems to niave little me that for about 10-grand (based on what seems to be the level of current pricing) and some devoted computer folks catering to the low and mid-level video folks building the right plug-in toys, they can have a machine that does video wonders for the bread and eats the market. One thing they can't play is normal computer company games…it's just over the horizon or we THINK it will work. Panasonic's parent company tried that with the MII tape format and Sony beat them hands down with BETA before they left the gate. I just hate to see potential wasted. Regards, David