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- Toaster price hike announcement from UPI/Newsbytes...]
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- Subject: Toaster Prices Going up 10/21/91
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- Date: 21 Oct 91 22:11:53 GMT
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- TOPEKA, KANSAS, U.S.A., 1991 OCT 21 (NB) -- NewTek intends
- to raise the price of its Video Toaster more than 50 percent, from
- $1,595 to $2,495, effective with the release of version 2.0 of the
- software on December 15.
-
- The Toaster is a combination genlock, stillstore, character
- generator, and special effects device for the Commodore Amiga
- which has caused great excitement among broadcasters who can
- spend over $100,000 on a simple editing suite. At Comdex, the
- company is expected to release a version of its software for the
- IBM PC under Microsoft Windows, and demonstrate the new
- software.
-
- Buyers can beat most of the price increase by buying their
- Toaster immediately. All cards shipped between now and the
- release of the new software can upgrade for free. Other users of
- version 1.0 can upgrade their software for $395.
-
- NewTek claims that over 11,000 hours of work was devoted to the
- new software, which is over twice the size of the original and
- contains 50 percent more effects, including such things as real-
- time warping, soft-edge transitions, and organic effects like
- clouds, pouring liquid, fire, tearing paper, and breaking glass.
-
- "Many of these effects have never been possible on any
- equipment, no matter what the price," said president Tim
- Jenison in a press statement.
-
- The new Toaster also features a modeling program called Light
- Wave, file compression to conserve hard disk space, faster frame
- loading, and the ability to share files with Apple Macintoshes,
- IBM PCs, and Unix-based workstations.
-
- DXF files from AutoCAD release 11, 3D Studio, ParaComp's Swivel
- 3D, Wavefront OBJ, and even Macintosh PICT files can also be
- handled by the new Toaster, and the new modular file system will
- let other file formats be added at any time.
-
- (Dana Blankenhorn/19911021/ Press Contact: Mark Randall, NewTek,
- 913-354-1146)
-