Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!axn100 From: AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Which market for CDTV? Message-ID: <91042.104757AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 15:47:57 GMT References: <1991Feb10.103752.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <1991Feb10.211625.24078@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb11.055244.3316@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 57 kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Writes: [stuff... deleted] >If CDTV had come out last fall as first announced, it might have gotten some >kind of market share; altho the original prophecy that "a hundred" discs would >also be ready by then, was humorous. Good titles take huge amounts of work. >As for licensing... license to whom???! Nobody is left! ;-). How about RCA, Zenith, ect.. I don't seem to recall that all of the home electronic compaines deciding upon a format. I think most sit out and see which is more accepted by the consumers. If CDTV can grab some marketshare quickly, others will join in. >| These units are probably for the Japanese home market, and only marginally >| affects what will happen here in the U.S.. >Wow. We must live on different planets :-). Seriously, the first units >will be intro'd in Japan, and then hit the US shortly thereafter. My point is that what succeeds in Japan is not guranteed to succeed In the U.S.. Mark seems to think that everything introduced from Japan will succeed here, and that is just not the Case. >As for the Beta/VHS comparisons -- understandable, as that's about the >only handy historical comparison; but it's pretty invalid in this case. >This time we have the _creators_ of CDROM and CD-A issuing another new >global standard, CD-I. Not following it is akin to creating your own >one-off, inferior DAT standard. The marketplace won't like it. Speaking of introducing new formats talk to Phillips about their new DAT standard. But all of this is a moot point since there really is no "standard", just several compaines at the starting line. >Also keep in mind: Sony and Matsushita bought up Columbia, MCA, CBS, etc >Guess why? They _own_ the rights to a huge amount of raw material now. >They've also implemented US groups to do R&D on interactive software ove >radio, TV, and ISDN. Someone jokingly said "juggernaut". You were right This is the one thing I forgot to put in the post. This is the biggest obsticle to CDTV. Unless, C= can get software from big houses, CDTV will not work. Still there are still several independent entertainment co. still left. >It's also extremely unlikely that it would succeed as a $1000 video game ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is just a side point, but I recently was looking in Babbages (A software store, mainly viedo game software), and they had this new video game, I think it was named Neo Geo. Well anyway, it costs $600 for the console, and $400 for each game. The games, all five them, looked neat, until I saw the price. So it is a possiblity. > Regards - kevin P.S. Thanks for moving this to advocacy. I like a boob posted twice and forgot to redirect it. Ajai