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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Play Inc's Snappy. They'd do Amiga software except...
- Date: 6 Jan 1996 17:00:06 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Play, Inc. is a company formed by a number of ex-NewTek people
- a year ago or so.
-
- Right now they have one product on the market: "Snappy."
- Snappy is a video framegrabber/digitizer. About the size of
- a pack of cigs, plugs into a PC's parallel port. It's battery powered.
-
- The quality of the grabs from Snappy are amazing.
-
- Today I found the Play, Inc. booth at CES in Vegas and there was
- Miss Kiki Stockhammer setting up to do her usual demos. I stopped
- and yakked with Mark Randall, VP of Marketing, who I have known
- for many years.
-
- Naturally the topic wove its way to Amigas. "Snappy will plug
- just fine into an Amiga" Mark told me. "There just isn't any
- software to drive it."
-
- "Why don't you write some?" I asked.
-
- I got the predictable reaction - "The Amiga market isn't big
- enough to make it worth our while. If someone else is serious
- about supporting Snappy and we believe they are, the necessary code could
- be made available to them to create an Amiga driver for it."
-
- He also told me that they sold over $300,000 worth of Snappys
- during one of Kiki's ONE HOUR appearances on the QVC shopping channel.
-
- The product gets rave reviews. It's priced at US$199.95.
- You can plug a video camera into it. A still video camera.
- A laserdisc player. A VCR. any kind of standard video output
- can become Snappy's input.
-
- It would be a very cool thing to have Amiga software to support
- this hot product. I'm sure a few people out there would buy one
- if they could use it on their Amigas.
-
- Hell, I'm no one to start a letter writing campaign, but if
- I told you Mark's address is "markr@play.com" and his web
- page is http://www.markrandall.com" and Play Inc.'s
- phone number is 916-851-0800 and you'd like to use a Snappy on
- your Amigas, perhaps you'll let him know.
-
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