Toaster on J.Rivers'
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The Toaster will be showing it's glorius face on the Joan Rivers' Show
Thursday, 27 May.
So, did anyone catch the Joan Rivers show? Stupid here programmed his VCR for
11:00 PM rather than 11:00 AM, so I missed the darn thing! Can anyone post a
description/review/transcript?
Blaq!
you dind't miss anything, they spent 5-10 minutes on the OLD Toaster 2.0
software.
NOTHING new was shown on the Joan River's show today. :^(
Keep On Toastin'
Erik Flom
Blaq,
I missed the morning show, but strangly enough, I happened across it at
mid-night.
The show covered IBM Multi-media, MAC Morphing, and Toaster DVE's (with
KiKi). It appeared as though in the middle of IBM's Paint demo (the guy
was trying to whiten Robert Redfords teeth) the screen disappeared and
went to a dos prompt. Needless to say, he didn't finish his demo and they
quickly went to the next subject! The MAC Morphing was lame, at best.
The demo had Joan morphing into Mel Gibson. It wasn't very well done, and
it incorporated a slider to produce the effect (instead of an actual
anim). The MAC demonstrator had some problems moving windows around and
the screen/window refresh rates were horried (Joan found it "refreshing"
to see a computer nerd having trouble, too). KiKi's demo was undoubtedly
the best (unbiased?), but she only showed the different digital video
transitions on the A2000 based system. She mentioned that the system
could be had for under $5000.00 (I don't think the home videographers were
ready to shell out the bucks for a video switcher alone — she should have
shown more.)
All in all, I was pretty un-impressed.
Alan Henry
Yeah, why didn't Kiki show anything at all of Lighwave? I know they
compressed her usual sales pitch, but really…! Somehow, in any case, I
doubt exposure on "The Joan Rivers Show" is going to result in a massive
upswing of Toaster sales.
Of course, you're absolutely right, the viewers of the "Joan Rivers Show" are
typically well-versed in concepts like 3D and rendering.
Yes, but the people who understand it the least are the most fasinated by
it. We've become so accustomed to the concept of 3D that unless something
is utterly "ground breaking" it raises nothing more than a yawn. If the
"Joan Rivers'" crowd could see something being done on a home computer
that looked like BattleStar instead of WordStar, I think their attention
would have been unbreakable. An understanding of 3D and rendering
concepts isn't required to appreciate them.
Alan Henry