Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!uokmax!slfields From: slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Want CDTV info. CORRECTION! Message-ID: <1991Feb13.011431.10331@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 01:14:31 GMT References: <91040.095300JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> <91042.233404JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Lines: 25 In article cy0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad O. Yoshikawa) writes: >>The information I posted above is INCORRECT. I just learned that CDTV >>DOES require that every CD be placed in a special "caddy" before it >>can be inserted into the unit. These caddies cost around $6 apiece >>at the local Radio Shack (so I am told.) > >I wouldn't be concerned with Commodore's decision to place the CD's in a >tray. One tray ought to be suitable for all of the CD/TV discs, >correct? So it is a one time fee of 6 dollars that consumers will have >to pay--or Commodore may even include a tray. > Question: Is is a tray as such that Pioneer, etc. use for 6 disc >players? Then I would consider it a benefit, as I appreciate the 6 disc >tray insertion method rather than inserting/ejecting a disc everytime I >want to hear a different CD. I would say no, it is probably like the other cd drives for PCs like the one for apple. I still don't see it as a big problem, though. Heck, I just want to see one. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Fields slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu University of Oklahoma --------------------------------------------------------------------------------