On 22-Jul-08 13:54, John VanSickle wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> Unfortunately, then the Amiga's hardware stood still for 20 years. 
>> While it was once a shining example of hardware far ahead of its time, 
>> it has long since been left in the dust. I don't really understand how 
>> it happened, but Commodore ended up in all sorts of financial trouble. 
>> Commodore was good it making great hardware, but hopeless at marketing 
>> it.
> 
> The management at Commodore should take all of the blame for the fall of 
> Commodore.  Developing killer new technology should have been top 
> priority.  Hindsight being 20-20, they should have designed the OS with 
> the highest possible degree of resource management (IE, not assume that 
> all graphics would be 8-bit forever), and then opened up the hardware 
> architecture and allowed clones.
> 
> As it was, some of the later CEOs did nothing more than collect their 
> salaries.

The Amiga was the de facto standard for television quality broadcasting, 
as many have also mentioned. What they should have done was pair up with 
one of the groups that were defining HDTV and force a new TV standard. 
That should have gotten rid of the deadlock that nobody was buying HDTV 
sets because there was no broadcasting. Just make the displays first for 
computers in that format. Create movies in that format that can be 
played on that machine. Then build a settop box that can receive 
broadcasts. I still think we could have had HDTV 10 years ago in this 
way with a logical path to internet connectivity. Today, TV standards 
are still a mess and not ready for the 21rst century.

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