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#Woca Toronto news?

    06-Dec-93 07:27:32
Fm: Nathan Wahl 71673,252
To: Chris N.Julson 72727,1127
Chris, Was at WOCA, here's what I gathered in no particular order: -Lou Eggbrecht's speech was mostly on the CD 32, which was selling pretty briskly for more than I thought it would. CD32 will play both types of movie-on-disk (a Philips-type CD was played), and the full motion card will be available soon (being manufactured). Got a lot of good response on other features, but was a tad technical for me. Showed a UK commercial for CD32 – almost got a standing ovation; obvious comment was "when here?" CD 32 architecture is very open. He got a thundering round of applause when he mentioned something about the people in the hall starting a revolt (I think he knows exactly what is going on)! AAA chipset is actually in silicon, 95% bug free but workable. Lotsa techy details here, capability sounds good. Something about 30M pixels per second, I dunno. -Nucleus Personal Editor will be out soon. Real soon. Really soon! (The HW is done, in CMOS on the cable, not on the development board. I looked). I played with it; seems pretty straightforeward. Has an auto-pseudo A/B roll function. Their real A/B setup shouldn't be too long in coming, I suspect, and it STILL won't use a slot!!! (Nice for 4000 users.) -Scala, NewTek and SunRise had big booths, the rest were prety normal. Didn't see a whole lot of new stuff anywhere, but quite a few vendors, some really recognizable names and a fairly large crowd were in evidence. Attendance at the seminars was heavy. That's about all I recall right now. Didn't check out Centaur, sorry. Someone else jump in here with a better memory? … Nate, Emerald Video