Path: utzoo!dciem!hugh
From: hugh@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Hugh D. Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: How much can be put on a videodisc
Message-ID: <3833@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 12 Dec 90 20:15:13 GMT
References: <4003@mindlink.UUCP> <1990Dec9.082724.22804@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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In article <1990Dec9.082724.22804@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>> In this discussion on CD-I, CD-V, etc., which are coming, no mention
>> has been made of Commodores' CDTV which is available in limited release now.
>> General release after Christmas.
>>
>> It is being sold at around $995.00 Canadian.
>
>I'd heard that it was previewed at a Canadian Amiga show, but won't
>be available for US sale until months after its release in Europe 2Q '91.

Sounds right.  It was *previewed* at the Toronto World of Commodore
Amiga show.  Expected Canadian list price when it comes out is
"Under $1,500.00 CDN"

>Commodore originally announced that CDTV would be available with
>a "hundred" discs for the Christmas season.  They missed, which is

A lot of the discs will be ports of existing Amiga s/w and cd-roms
for other computers.

>understandable. But if CD-I comes out in stores before next season,
>then I don't see CDTV being able to make it in the mass market.

I won't touch this one, it could mushroom :-)  Don't write off CDTV
yet.  Let's see what happens when it comes out.

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