Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
Message-ID: <1991May16.203820.21059@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <62084@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1991 20:38:20 GMT

>>The NeXT box (when it is shipping with JPEG functional which I do not think
>>is presently the case thanks to C-Cube!) will do something the Amiga will
>>probably never do. Edit digital video on disk.
>
>A testament from the grossly shortsighted and uninformed. Your ignorance
>is overwhelming. First of all, JPEG is not intended for moving video,
>that is the realm of MPEG.  
Well excuse me... I fail to understand how NeXT's choice to use JPEG to
compress video places me in the overwhelmingly uninformed class. I am well
aware of the purpose of both JPEG and MPEG. I thought we were talking about
what NeXT and Amiga were (not) doing, not what some people feel they
should do!

>image quality to achieve the compression needed for real time video
>recording, playback, and editing from disk. MPEG addresses this problem
>as that was what it was meant to do. Commodore purportedly is already
>talking to MPEG chip manufacturers in an effort to include this technology
>in the Amiga's long list of multimedia capabilities. 
And I bet that NeXT hasn't heard of MPEG and aren't talking to ANYONE about
it! Whats your point...

>I might add that it
>is currently possible to edit and playback digital video from disk on the
>Amiga using DCTV. Real time recording is coming soon.
Lots of things are "coming real soon now". Why I bet you will even see
the Macintosh do some amazing things with video in the near future...

>>There are lots of other
>>things a NeXT will do much more easily than an Amiga, like exist cleanly in
>>an ethernet university environment.
>
>You truly are uninformed. On that note, I'm out of here. These NeXT wars
Huh? Whats your point? With an ethernet port built into the next and
a Unix operating system, lets face it it drops in place (well almost...
I guess you just type "make"!!). What are you doing for network mail and 
access to file servers, printers and stuff. Maybe there are packages and
hardware available, but this stuff is standard equipment with the NeXT. 

I really don't mind being pointed out as uninformed as long as you
can provide some reasonable information. Thanks.
>are disturbingly non-productive and it appears that all you want is a war.
Well, its not all non productive, you are about to tell me about some
nice Amiga stuff for ethernet connectivity and about DCTV for Amiga (could
you provide a company and number so I can call them?)

No I don't want war, but some comments posted (similar to yours) were sounding
on the nasty side. Lets stick to information rather than slamming.

tj
