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- From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: How to Solve the Problem of A3000 C= CD-ROM Support
- Message-ID: <James_Hastings-Trew.0ikw@telepro.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 17:12:24 GMT
- Organization: TelePro Technologies
- Lines: 41
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- In a message dated Sun 23 Aug 92 2:07, Flui@fraser.sfu.ca (francis Wai Gee
- wrote:
-
- FWG> However, the difference is that Apple and IBM are being perceived as
- FWG> making
- FWG> efforts to advance the state of the art in multimedia, while the
- FWG> Amiga seems
- FWG> to be stuck in the mud. It's the public perception that's
- FWG> sickening, more
- FWG> than anything else.
-
- And anybody who counts (i.e. anybody actually DOING multimedia work) is
- shooting themselves in the foot by ignoring the Amiga and it's many
- strengths. Frankly, CD-ROM is a great way to get a large database or a
- large multimedia presentation into many hands, but it is not the saviour of
- the multimedia industry.
-
- Let's talk a bit about PhotoCD. This is an exciting technology. IF it takes
- off with consumers, it will be a big boon to the multimedia industry.
- However, there are problems. There are many photo-finishers balking at
- purchasing a $150,000 workstation to digitize photos for a (now) very small
- customer base. Likely in the first stages of PhotoCD, the service will only
- be available in major cities. It will take a while to trickle out to the
- majority of communities and cities across the continent. If PhotoCD can
- "hang on" during this initial phase (and Kodak has indicated that it is
- committing substantial resources to see that it does) it will be a popular
- and wide-spread thing.
-
- Executives who need images to include in multimedia presentations would
- then not have to rely on "clip art" CD-ROM collections - they could buy
- slides from stock photo books, shoot the pictures themselves, etc., and get
- them professionally digitized and put on a PhotoCD for computer access.
-
- PhotoCD support then seems to me to be an important thing for any Amiga
- multimedia solution. This will have more of an immediate impact on
- multimedia that CD-ROM will, in my estimation. This is a direction that a
- believe Commodore has said they are working in.
-
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