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Title: MTV Wants Their NewTek
Post by: Pyromania on February 28, 2012, 12:13:00 AM
Many of our 9,000+ members own and enjoy a wide range of NewTek products. That means from time to time we may report mainstream NewTek news here on Amiga.org.

News from Peter Pachal via mashable.com

How One Tech Company Got MTV to Embrace Live Music

Seven years ago a Texas company called NewTek launched TriCaster, a product that essentially puts all the equipment from a TV news truck into one box. It’s affordable as broadcasting equipment goes, with rigs as cheap as $5,000. When it unveiled TriCaster, NewTek thought its main customers would be amateur broadcasters looking to upgrade from shoestring operations.

Then MTV came calling.

Read the rest of the article via the link below.

http://mashable.com/2012/02/26/tricaster-mtv-live/
Title: Re: MTV Wants Their NewTek
Post by: magnetic on February 28, 2012, 05:23:26 AM
Pyro

Pretty cool, interesting read. I'm happy NewTek is still around when I went to NAB (National Broadcasters convention in Vegas) they had a big booth there still! I said whats up to Tim and talked Amiga for a minute ; )
Title: Re: MTV Wants Their NewTek
Post by: weirdami on February 28, 2012, 11:55:48 AM
I guess this means that every transition, digital effect, title, graphic, and animation you are about to see at MTV was created entirely with the Tricaster from Newtek. Enter Copernicus!
Title: Re: MTV Wants Their NewTek
Post by: desiv on February 28, 2012, 04:43:15 PM
Quote from: weirdami;681756
I guess this means that every transition, digital effect, title, graphic, and animation you are about to see at MTV was created entirely with the Tricaster from Newtek. Enter Copernicus!

Is it really sad that I included the echo as I read that??  :roflmao:
(Every transition..."every transition"... Digital effect.. "digital effect"..)

Gotta head to youtube and watch that again now..

desiv
Title: Re: MTV Wants Their NewTek
Post by: runequester on February 28, 2012, 05:36:36 PM
well heck, MTV used amigas way back in the day, so hey