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From: huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner)
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Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
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Date: 11 Dec 90 16:40:18 GMT
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In article <1990Dec11.094637.26528@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>,
kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
|> huebner@aero.aero.org (Robert E. Huebner) writes about A3000+CDROM:
|> 
|> > One of the reasons I see that argues that it will not be == CDTV is
|> > that CDTV (according to Commodore as quoted in .info) will offer a CDTV
|> > "upgrade" path to CD-I standard (smart move, but might that hurt the
|> > number of developers interested in CDTV-only software?).
|> 
|> That would be great, tho probably expensive because of the totally
|> different video hardware between CDTV/CD-I.  Do you recall which issue
|> that was in?  Was it a true quote from CBM, or just a rumor column?
|> 

It was in a rumor column, but stated as such (direct quote)

"Commodore has announced that CDTV will be "upgradeable" to CD-I when 
that chip set is available."
		-Amazing Dec '90

Which seemed pretty direct, but could be wrong.  Another quote from the
article:

"Another thing that's delaying CDTV is an attempt to be competetive with
CD-I, which now offers full-motion video and CD-quality sound."

Which is untrue.  An acquaintance working on CD-I said that, although
full-screen full-motion video was their intention, serious problems have
surfaced with this.  As for CD-Quality sound, I can't see the serious advantage
to putting 16-bit audio in the machine when you can software-control its 
audio playback from the CD itself (which is, of course, CD quality).

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