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From: ngorelic@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ads on MTV
Message-ID: <2078@uokmax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 00:44:50 GMT
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In article <9020@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
>In article <11718@cup.portal.com> ErikG@cup.portal.com (Erik Alexander Gavriluk) writes:
>>-  They're on MTV.  Who watches MTV?  The people who buy records.  MTV is 
>>basically an advertising medium to sell records--that's why people make
>>videos.  Thus, MTV is geared to attract people who buy records.  These
>>people are aged 12-21.  
>
>WRONG!  Who watches MTV?  People who tend to spend money on cable TV, *watch*
>a lot of TV, and spend a lot of money on a CD stereo and VCR rack.  
>Including technophile Dad's with VCR's and very often cameras.  These people 
>are in the 21-50 age range and generally have a reasonable amount of money, 
>appreciate good sound and visuals (though why they're watching MTV for that 
>I don't know, but then again, I'm used to watching the Amiga :-).  In other 
>words, a pretty good match for the Amiga (though I would assume not the only 
>one). 
>
    Just to take up bandwidth here:

	  My dad is a major technophile.  Yep, he's got the VCR,
	  portable phones, Cable TV, the works.

	    He would rather die than be caught watching MTV.

	  However, my friends just entering college, and those that I
	  am about to graduate from college with, watch MTV.  In fact,
	  when there's nothing else on to watch, that's what they land
	  on. (believe me, at 4 am., it's the best thing on.)  I think
	  that I'd have to agree on the 12-21 age group.   (or maybe
	  upto 24 or so...)

	  Regardless, the ad's sucked.  It wouldn't entice a 12 year
	  old, or a 50 year old (especially a 50 year old, and those
	  are usually the ones that are going to spend the money for
	  the 12 year old)


>>-  These ads are geared for Xmas, of course.  Kiddies can buy a machine that
>>lets you put a flying saucer over a hillside for $800, or they can buy a
>>Nintendo game system for $100.  Guess what they're gonna find under the tree?
>
>But Dad's are the ones that are going to want and buy Amiga's.  The same
>technophiles that bought the CD 6-stack player with super programability
>and had as much fun programming that as they do playing the absolute latest
>highest tech video games out there.  In other words, boomers.  

	 Survey Says:  BEEP!   Granted, any dad that ends up buying an
	 Amiga is going to end up playing games on it, but you will not
	 find one willing to shell out $1000.00 so that he can play
	 games on it.




   Ditto. 

>
>>-  These ads don't even bother to show the computer.  Why?
>
>So what's to see?  It looks like a computer.  Better to show what it can 
>do that is different than to waste time showing that it looks just about 
>like any other computer looks.
>

        Yes, it looks like a computer.  Not like a nintendo.  

                             Show us that!

       Show us that it's not just another place to plug in a joystick.

       Dad's not even going to listen to the kid when he explains that
    it's a choice between the $100 nintendo, and the $1200 Amiga, when
    they are put into the same list.  Explain that it's one of the most
    powerful personal computers available!  And do it without the guy's 
    ears expanding.



>Keith Doyle 
>gryphon!keithd

Bamf

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