recidivist wrote:
Newtek's Video Toaster sold more high-end Amigas than anything Commodore did.The Toaster was THE editing tool for small and medium projects,and even the yet to be named "pro-sumer" could afford the system.
Much of the Amiga's special appeal was that it could use an ordinary home television or an equally affordable monitor but its success was really tied to NTSC video.The switch to digital TV and the near universal display for computers pretty much takes care of all that.
So what the heck did we buy amigas for here in PAL-land, huh? In UK amiga was mostly a gaming machine, but then again, any computer in the UK was mostly a gaming machine. Sorry, any computer in the UK mostly _IS_ a gaming machine. That's just how the brits are, obsessed with silly games. :-)
But the rest of us?
I know what sold most "high end" amigas in Norway at least - SCALA - no doubt about that. Very much for the same reasons that the video toaster sold amigas in the US.