#Woca Toronto news?
06-Dec-93 07:27:32
Sb: #123782-#Woca Toronto news?
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