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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: Vivid-24 and SGI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.061442.26614@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 06:14:42 GMT
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- In article <gregpen.725880320@crash.cts.com> gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante) writes:
-
- > Since I WORK in the video field, and make my living doing computer graphics
- >on AMIGAS and SGI's (yes!), I can claim this for FACT, that professionals,
- >despite the cost/performance ratio of the Amiga, will not choose it because
- >the Amiga does not have enough horsepower to provide EFFICIENT graphics
- >PRODUCTION for MEDIUM-TO-LARGE budget production.
-
-
- You haven't seen the Vivid 24 board because it's bran new!!
-
- And no one is slighting the SGI! I'm sure that in many situations they
- are indispensable.
-
-
- > For the same reasons, you see QUANTEL Paintboxes (despite their overpriced
- >nature) in TV studios (every one I've seen.. KNSD-TV, KFMB, KGTV, WPIX, KSCI,
- >WWOR, WGBH).
-
-
- ...sure, sometimes for big-budget production, a few hundred thousand dollars
- invested in hardware is of little consequence.
-
-
- >I am sorry but the argument is wrong. 1) With an SGI, you can have multiple
- >artists working on MULTIPLE projects at the same time; 2) Having artists sit
- >around idling is STUPID MANAGEMENT and my ASS won't be employed if this were so.
-
-
- My point still stands. Why are even the networks using Toasters when they
- could afford, and in fact, already own other much more expensive gear? I
- mean, why would thay want several Toasters around when they already have
- one or two syestems in the several-hundred-thousand-dollar range?
-
-
- >ONE artist can crank out his/her project on the SGI in one hour. The REST of
- >the artists will be in PRE-PRODUCTION or POST-PRODUCTION consultation with
- >clients while the said artists is working. :-)
-
-
- ...skipped.
-
-
- >I AM NOT KIDDING. If YOUR argument were true, EVERYBODY would have an AMIGA
- >and the other companies would be doing something else! :-) BZZZZT!
- >The SGI and others are DAMN good machines. The Amiga is a DAMN good machine.
-
-
- Those SGIs must be awsome machines. People deffend them with the fervor that
- Amigoids deffend their machines. :)
-
- >
- >SGI belongs in broadcast. Amiga belongs in industrial/home video/pre-production/draft animation.
- >
-
-
- Amiga and Toasters are being used professionally as well as in industrial/
- home.
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- NCW
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