On Wednesday 16 January 2002 22:54, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:16:22PM -0600, Jack Ungerleider wrote: > > Not a fair conclusion -- when you've got 6-digit gear to depreciate. > It won't happen until the next purchasing cycle. I remember the Video > Toaster -- I was working in video then, and there were quite a few > video guys who had a great toy to play with, but they would often be a > little bummed that they couldn't bring it into work to use. There > were a lot of things that were snazzier/easier than CMX editing, > though it didn't come close to a 2" Ampex machine for picture quality. > I agree with most of this. At the time a VideoToaster unit from NewTek cost about $5000 or $6000 for all the features, if I remember correctly. For large TV operations that was a viable "experimentation" number. I was out of the video business by that time. (I actually was only involved tangentally anyway.) I'm going on cloudy memories of PR from NewTek and Amiga at the time. > > There -- I don't think there were any flames involved, were there? :) No there weren't. Thank you very much. 8^) -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com