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From: sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: CDTV in Popular Science
Message-ID: <0b7cVIq00WB60=61AW@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 05:00:04 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Well, I was just looking through Popular Science magazine just now and
guess what I saw!  Yup!  In the Electronic Newsfront section, they had
a few paragraphs dealing with CDTV.  They basically said what CDTV was
and it was nothing that we didn't discuss earlier.  One thing bothered
me though in the last paragraph.  Here is a direct reproduction of the
paragraph without permission of course:

CDTV will not be compatible with CD-I, the under-$1000 system Philips
N.V. plans to launch in mid-1991, with support from Sony and Matsushita.
CD-I will provide full-screen full-motion video, while CDTV offers half-screen
moving pictures.
My first gripe is why they said CDTV isn't comapatible with CD-I.  Shouldn't
they say CD-I isn't compatible with CDTV since CDTV will be out before
CD-I??  Also, why does it say that CDTV offers HALF-SCREEN moving pictures
instead of FULL-SCREEN?  Did I miss something in the discussion of CDTV?
I always thought my amiga had full-screen animation capabilities.  And since
the thing will have a CD-ROM interface, shouldn't it be able to animate
FULL-SCREEN HAM images giving it FULL-SCREEN, FULL-MOTION video??

If you feel that it would be of interest to others, post it on the NET
but if I am the only person to find this out just now, please e-mail.
Sun...