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From: martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CDTV in Popular Science
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Date: 19 Oct 90 20:05:57 GMT
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In article <0b7cVIq00WB60=61AW@andrew.cmu.edu> sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes:
>Well, I was just looking through Popular Science magazine just now and
>...

>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??  

   CD-I is a standard defined by Sony and Philips and presented at 
the Microsoft 86 CD-ROM conference.
  
>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??

   I not only a question of your computer capabilities, it also
depend on the encoding scheme use on disk.  Remember that CD-ROM
transfers only 150k per seconds...

   Daniel.
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