Hi Mark :
I think I still have one somewhere (didn't include it in the A500 sale,
hehe), but I found a TV too fuzzy to work with... the 1084 was great.
Really ? Want to sell it ? Mine is falling apart .
My Amiga 4000/30 never gave me an ounce of problems and no
noise either . I added an 040 accelerator with SCSI and a V-
Lab Motion and was doing cool stuff years before the average
PC user could .
I don't think the set-top thing ever materialised . They just
sat on the Amiga technology until it was very-very dead .
Ya , basic cable TV is 95% garbage . It's a stress inducer ,
essentially . I love to watch the odd baseball game , Frontline
on PBS , but most of the programming humiliates , denegrates ,
distracts and dehumanizes .
If the program doesn't get you , the sponsors' commercials
will . The medium is a perfect tool for the corporate c*&^k-
suckers . "Bend them over , then slip it in" is their motto .
Oh well , they say there are no victims ... only volun-tears .
studio
Well , what _IF_ the Amiga had not , um ... succumbed
to external pressures? Was the Amiga not poised to be
the obvious convergence conduit ?
Was it not suedo-convergence in 1993 when , with a
flick of my TV's remote I switched David Letterman to
'Opalpaint' ? From Seinfeld to 'Vlab Motion' ... from
'Art Director Pro' to a music video ?
Was true convergence stymied , when the Amiga died ?
Did a kind of convergence manage to find it's way into
our lives via a back-door MS/Intel TV tuner ?
What about these set-top boxes that were attempted by some of the companies
that took over the Amiga brand? Didn't some companies actually try that? I
guess they fail
I've had it with TV... >99% of the content is rubbish, I'll never buy a TV
again.
enough ranting,
Mark H
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