Posted by doc on 09/18/05 04:21

guess their story gives credence to the addage, "your never too big to fall"

COLECO is a similiar story. i used to do market development consultation
and business development consultation and i used the history of COLECO to
illustrate how sometimes a FRESH look and FORWARD vision can give BREATH to
a sick business, showing how some really rich folks in the leather business
sought a way to grow their wealth by branching their interest into a growing
market sector but how the net result would be disaster when they failed to
FEED the FU Monkey (a name i gave to the Follow Up Monkey) and he died.
geat illustration and often drove home how not to loose your business.

on the liquid edition 6 pro, i'm trying out the software right now, order
mind meld to figure out how to do things, and hope to get the founder to pop
for the software cause i like the layout and what appears to be ease of use.
moreover, i desperately need the 3 camera multicam feature and hoping that
the workflow will not be toooooooo task challenging for the following
configuration:

- processor: pentium d (dual core) 3 ghz with 1 mb cache each core 800
front side bus
- ram: 2 gb 4200 ddr2 533hz
- video: ati x700 pcix w/256 mb ram
- sound: audigy 4 pcix 7.1 dolby
- drives: 250 & 300 gb 8 mb cache SATA 7.2K, 160 gb 8 mb cache 1394/IDE
external 7.2K

your comments on this will be appreciated. in addition, have you or do you
use avid software as a matter of interest? if so, your input would be
appreciated.

doc

"TonyP" <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote in message
news:FJ4Xe.3331$zN6.2243@fe10.lga...
> AnthonyR wrote:
>
>> Yes, It is a shame what happenned to Amiga and also how newtek didn't do
>> as well on the PC side
>> as all us Toaster owners had hoped.
>> They are actually selling a complete product now called the TriCaster,
>> available at videoguys of all places,
>> http://www.videoguys.com/tricaster.html
>
> Yeah... the PC toaster with it's uncompressed video offered a lot when it
> first came out. But now, with the price and quality of NLE's dropping,
> NewTek I guess was caught in a rock and hard place.
> I personally don't need a live switcher.
>
>> For $5,000 a complete staion in a box with live switching etc, like the
>> original toaster but
>> I would have preferred a simplier AGP type card, or 64bit PCI slot and
>> software for
>> around $1500 since I already own 2 powerful PC's that i built myself and
>> don't want
>> to be tied to proprietary hardware ever again.
>> Maybe the software only solution of LE6 is the way to go?
>
> I ran with a hardware NLE (DV500) and it served me well. But I decided
> this time to not go that route and choose Liquid because it was software
> based. The faster the computer, the faster the rendering, etc. outside of
> it's realtime operation.
>
>>
>> TonyP, I didn't know about the offshore Bahama money bleeding, no wonder!
>> Has anyone written a book or made a movie on it yet, would be a nice
>> story.
>
> Yeah. I was an AVID (no pun in tended) Amiga person. And when it went
> belly up, the information started to come out has to the hows and whys.
> Dave Haynie had a video out called the "Deathbed Vigil" about the last
> days at Commodore.
> Amazing how a company with so many forward thinkers could end up gone.
>

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