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Not a direct answer to your question, but I believe there are still A/V shops that use Amiga Hardware.

I used to work in video production and I never spoke to a person that currently used Amiga anywhere. I realize this is totally anecdotal, but the Amiga hardware must be pretty tightly integrated into your workflow if you're still using 20+ year old hardware that's a tiny fraction of the speed of more flexible and standardized desktops now, with software that you can easily and cheaply hire someone out of college to operate since they probably have already trained on it.

Perhaps a few TV news outlets are still using it since the turnaround there is so tight that everything needs to be "just so" to meet your deadlines, but even then, I have difficulty believing with the move to digital and HD that you could even get your footage onto an Amiga and work with it. I can't believe the hardware could handle HD.

My comment was also purely anecdotal as well, and biased towards public access and small market TV stations (ie high school run A/V Productions).

Regardless, your point is probably valid, but I have to imagine there is at least a handful of A/V enthusiasts taht swear by the RGB based computers.

I personally saw an Amiga still in use in a public access studio in 2005. It was being used to show announcements. The function of it today could be trivially replaced with a raspberry pi and a bit of custom software, but I can say that the reason it was still in operation in 2005 was because it was set up by an employee in 1990's who had since moved on and there was no longer anyone with sufficient knowledge/motivation to replace it.

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