Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!apache.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@apache.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Want CDTV info. (here it is!) Message-ID: <88225@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 14:25:31 GMT References: <1991Feb10.103752.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> <91041.163331AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Feb11.073451.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 41 In article <1991Feb11.073451.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >In article <91041.163331AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu>, writes: >> Mark please check your facts before you post. The reason that Beta >> failed was because of Sony's desire to dominate the marketplace. Sony who >> developed the Beta format did not licence the format to other VCR makers. >> JVC (who I beleive developed the VHS format) licenced the format to other >> makers. If you recall the battle of formats, the only maker of Beta was >> Sony. Yes, toward the endSony licenced the format to others, but by then >> it was too late. If C= can get some market share before CD-I comes out, and >> then licence the techonlogy to others, it will succeed. > Do you think Commodore is even going to consider licensing the CDTV >trchnology to other companies? HECK NO!! The CDTV is an Amiga, and >licensing the CDTV to other companies would be tantamount to allowing >dozens of companies to produce Amiga clones. I thought a well-respected Rag has already stated that C-A _IS_ going to do this very thing! I think it would be a _SMART_ move! Why would licensing CDTV technology result in amiga clones? A Dozen Amiga clones..... HAHAHAHAHAhahahahah....... Don't we wish! Would that include a Portable-Clone, how about an '040 clone? I think Mr. Foot-in-Mouth has stumbled, tripped, fallen flat-on-face, discovered something here. > > Commodore will not license the CDTV technology to other companies, >period. > -MB- "Mark" these words, pun intended! Do you think C-A knows what they are and aren't going to do before Mark tells them.. or after? :-) -- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____