Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The Best Ad Yet Message-ID: <6275@cup.portal.com> Date: 5 Jun 88 23:17:22 GMT References: <1656@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 44 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 Gee, that's an interesting ad. Perhaps it should be displayed in the San Jose Mercury News (heart of Silicon Valley, 4 miles from Amiga in Los Gatos). Consider ... in the Mercury-News' COMPUTING section, Sunday, June 5, 1988, the feature article is "Coming to a screen soon: desk-top video" by Jim Bartimo, the Mercury-News' Computer Editor (an avowed anti-Amiga person as witnessed by his articles over the past year or so). One mention is made of the Amiga: ".. and the Commodore Amiga has become a favorite personal computer among videophiles who want to marry video and computer technology. But the 16.8 million colors produced by the Macintosh ][ make it capable of producing near-television quality presentations, and software companies are rushing to take advantage of the Mac ]['s capabilties." The article continues with descriptions of all the super-fantastic graphics cards for the Mac ][ and descriptions of all the super-dooper software. Further into the article (several pages by the way), it's clear that no-one is aware that ANY computer can do REAL-TIME presentation, since ALL emphasis is on how to produce 35mm slides, overhead transparencies, etc. And, "The major problem with desktop video is a technical one: computer monitors and television screens operate differently." [oh really?! :-) ] And the article concludes: "But the level of technical expertise required to create a desk-top video is still prohibitively high. Desk-top video requires the user to learn almost as much about editing techniques as a professional. "Even Ames Cornish, Apple marketing manager for desk-top presentations, said, "Desp-top video is not something you or I could do today." " ...... With garbage like that in the MOST popular newspaper in Northern California (where the local companies include the likes of Silicon Graphics, PIXAR, Sun, Amiga, Ardent, Link, Lucasfilms, Apple, Atari, etc.), *WHY* isn't CBM attempting to improve its public image with the buying public? CONSTANTLY in the San Jose Mercury-News and in the San Francisco Chronicle the Amiga is lambasted, ignored, and upstaged by vaporware announcements from companies hawking products for the "other" systems.