Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 06:07:17 -0900
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Macs Produce TV Programs

Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better

This tidbit is from:

Carey Handfield

This is a good news MacIntosh story which was published in the November 
4th edition of 'The Age' a major daily newspaper published in Melbourne 
Australia.

I am quoting from the newspaper article in the I T section.

Two friends Rod Morris and Peter Dodds are busy turning Australian 
television on its ear by showing how simple and economical computer 
equipment can match the output of traditional broadcasting hardware 
costing hundreds of times more.

These 2 business partners produce Catch Phrase a popular daily game show 
on Channel 9 out of Sydney. This show which is broadcast 5 days a week is 
created on half a dozen Macintosh 8500 computers. Morris and Dodds said 
their aim is to make a program that comes totally out of the Mac - no 
studio just the Macs.

Morris said "one of the biggest battles we had early on was to get 
Channel 9 to accept the Macintoshes. They said computers weren't good 
enough for broadcast work; the stuff had to come of SGI or Quantel. So we 
set up a side-by-side comparison with the Mac 8500 and their own 
equipment and asked them to choose. They chose the Mac output!

This is just another example of how good Macs are.