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- Subject: Re: Future Entertainment Show, London
- Message-ID: <ALANB.92Nov11171546@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
- From: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins)
- Date: 11 Nov 92 16:15:46 GMT
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- In-reply-to: cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 92 12:18:42 GMT
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- >>>>> On 9 Nov 92 12:18:42 GMT, cs90rol@brunel.ac.uk (Richard O Lavey) said:
-
- > There now follows a summary of what I saw at the Future
- > Entertainments Show held last weekend (6-8 Nov) at Earl's Court in
- > London.
-
- > Overview
- > --------
-
- > This show was probably the most popular home computer show ever held
- > in London. On the Saturday there were a reported 15,000 visitors,
- > and on Sunday (the day I went) people weren't being allowed through
- > the outer perimeter unless they had advance tickets !
-
- Same was true on Saturday, at least some of the time. I had an hours wait with a ticket.
-
- > For those who don't know, the show's name comes from the fact that
- > it was sponsored/organised by Future Publishing - who produce Amiga
- > Format, Amiga Shopper and Amiga Power amoungst other magazines.
-
- Including magazines for Nintendo and Sega (who were there) and Atari (who weren't).
-
- > The Commodore Stands
- > --------------------
-
- > Well, what can I say ? I was VERY impressed by the Commodore stands
- > at the show. They were large and well positioned and were showing
- > the latest Amigas. The games stand was filled with A600's, A600HD's,
- > CDTVs, a couple of A500+s with the A570 CD-ROM drive, and A1200's.
-
- Very crowded though, and not as many people to answer questions as
- last years "World of Commodore Show" (which was also Future Publishing).
-
- > Leading between EC2 and EC1 was a corridor, with the CBM games stand
- > at the EC2 end and a large partition at the EC1 end with embedded
- > TV's running the new Amiga TV ad. This was great, as it meant that
- > everyone going between halls had to walk past this large Amiga ad...
-
- Hmm - I missed that. Told you it was crowded....
-
- > At the "business" stand in EC1, there was mainly PC clones. The
- > A4000 and A3000 were also there, the former running SCALA. I picked
- > up a flier here that contains some interesting info...
-
- Both 4000 and 3000 were being heavily pushed for multimedia presentations.
-
- > Phillips
- > --------
-
- > On a more technical point, there was a demo disk running and showed
- > off FULL SCREEN FULL MOTION VIDEO. This was very impressive, and if
- > CDTV wants to compete then Commodore better have the same thing
- > ready soon !
-
- This (are Commodore committed to FMV for CD-TV?) was something I might
- have tried to ask at the Commodore stand if it wasn't so crowded. The
- FMV demo for CD-i was saying "available sometime in the future".
-
- > Other stuff
- > -----------
-
- I was very disappointed compared with the "World of Commodore".
- --
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