Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!frith!dailey From: dailey@frith.uucp (Chris Dailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CDTV - hope yet! Message-ID: <1990Jun27.140342.13104@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Date: 27 Jun 90 14:03:42 GMT References: <1990Jun22.034017.7806@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1990Jun22.170902.7410@csmil.umich.edu> <1990Jun22.192746.16666@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 66 Sorry to leave in so much quoted material (be thankful that I deleted about ten times that amount), but I think it will help (especially since I'm still 300 messages behind in c.s.a!). In article <1990Jun22.192746.16666@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) writes: >csmil.umich.edu!fribourg.csmil.umich.edu!chymes writes: >They certainly don't buy $1000 CD players! But if they can shut up the kids >who are screaming for Nintendo, get a high-quality CD player, including CD+G, >and maybe, *just maybe*, use it as a real computer for educational or home >finance purposes (you have to know there's an Amiga in there), that should do >the trick. >It will fail as an expensive game machine. >It will fail as an expensive CD player. >It might fail as a repackaged Amiga. >It is more likely to succeed as all of the above. >Multiple ad campaigns, each aimed at different market segments, would help: > - kids who like games > - parents > - teenagers who are starting to get hooked on the new online services > - yuppies/dinks (double income, no kids) who like expensive stereos > - serious couch potatoes who like hooking things up to their TV > >and many specialist markets, including: > - info-addicts who like CD-ROM > - techno-freaks who want an X terminal at home > - home-video bugs that would love an in-home video editing suite! Some of the possibilities for CDTV as I see them: Foreign language instruction. Vocabulary, phrasing, etc. etc. etc. You can even have instruction on the accent, which is very important in many languages. Home repair/improvement stuff. Did your washer break down? Time/Life books on CDTV show you how. Build a deck? etc. etc. etc. But maybe not on repairing the CDTV..;-) Car repair. The Chilton people that put out those car maintenance books would do a good job on these. Computer instruction. Learn computer languages interactively. Learn how to use WordPerfect. Then, with the keyboard, run WordPerfect. (Admittedly, this particular example would be better if the Amiga version of WP were comparable to the IBM version, but oh, well!) It will multitask, so run WP and the tutorial at the same time! You could have a disk with a bunch of recipes, and if there is anything that is confusing, they can see a short video segment on how to do it. Math instruction/tutoring. Take students through problems, showing them how to do them. Maybe even let them enter in a problem and have CDTV help them work through it. Play CD's. Then let the user add instruments and stuff to the music of the music CD's he buys! With one of those 3D animators, you could make a /Fantasia/-like movie! Just record with the VCR as you play the music & the CDTV animation. An electronic encyclopedia, as one would expect with a CD player, including pictures (HAM, 32 colors, or whatever). Whoahoa, I'm getting excited here! I hope we will see all of these things! > Craig Hubley ------------------------------------- > Craig Hubley & Associates "Lead, follow, or get out of the way" > craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca ------------------------------------- -- /~\ Chris Dailey (CPS Undergrad, SOC Lab Coord, AMIG user group Secretary) C oo dailey@(cpsin1.cps|frith.egr).msu.edu (make WP5.1 for the Amiga) _( ^) "I am thankful for one leg. To limp is no disgrace -- / ~\ I may not be number one, but I can still run the race." -from B.C.