A4000 toaster rip off?

[Tigger]

THEONE wrote:
I would never trade the 4000 toaster for a nt toaster 2.0 you have more pros for keeping the Amiga toasters. Jusk ask some of the Pros and then youll see why they still use Amiga Toaster/flyerss. ;-) Yeah more to the point dont every trade anything offf more value for less value. Sell iit it on Ebay and make more money. Alot of peopel are jumping all over the Amiga Toasters .

First of all the Newtek deal is $500 off if you own an Amiga Video Toaster you dont have to trade your toaster in.   Secondly, the new Toaster is superior to the old toaster in basically every way, if anyone really offered to swap you a new toaster, RUN dont walk over to his house and do the swap.   I have both, I wrote more software for the Flyer then anyone else not having the work Newtek in their job title.  I have a new toaster, the new toaster is better, real video professionals (including myself) realize this.   It hasnt won all the awards this year for being not as good as the Amiga version.   Its won the awards for taking the idea behind the original toaster and flyer a quantum leap forward.  And the upcoming upgrades are only going to make it better.  Someone made a comment about the Toaster being a PCI card (it is) and trying to get it to run on the new Amiga.   The biggest strike against this working is the slowness of the current A1 motherboards both in processor speed and memory bandwidth.  Also its likely to be several years for there to be enough potential amiga sales for it to even be a break even effort for Newtek.
      -Tig    

[Tigger]

mips_proc wrote:
Next big leap newtek is going to have to face is moving to HDTV real-time/non-linear/uncompressed.

Actually the toaster software was controlling the Intergraph HDTV editor 3 years ago at NAB.   That was the first look we had at the editor we now call TEd (or Toaster Edit).   Actually all of the toaster magic is in software and its really resolution independent, so I would guess we will at least see hints of a HDTV card (or adapter) at NAB next year.   Right now Aura, Lightwave, etc all work in HDTV, only need the bandwidth etc to get HDTV going in the rest of the system.   You made a comment awhile ago about Illusion, its a sweet program, Jeff Whites plugin for it is well worth getting since you already have Aura.
     -Tig