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- From: dukat@suba.com (Lawrence Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Play Inc's Snappy. They'd do Amiga software except...
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- Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:24:40 GMT
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- Harv R Laser (Harv@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- : Harv | "Do you recognize the
- : harv@cup.portal.com | Bell of Truth when you
- : http://www.portal.com/~harv | hear it ring?"
- : hlaser@eworld.com <--- Newton mail only! | - Leon Russell
-
- Here's something else I bet you didn't know: Play, Inc. used to be
- Digital Creations! You know, the guys who made Brilliance and DCTV?
-
-