Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!taco!hobbes!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN Message-ID: <1991Mar22.082222.27931@ncsu.edu> Date: 22 Mar 91 08:22:22 GMT References: <%YY-8#%@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar19.222832.23744@news.iastate.edu> <1991Mar19.235612.24975@news.iastate.edu> <91079.104344GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> <91079.205029ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 22 ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA (ACPS1072@RYERSON) writes: >I think Commodore's idea to market a CD-Rom player (as opposed to a >computer with a CD-ROM player) is a great idea. It attacks the market >of non-computer people (like artsie fartsie students - no offense :> ). No flame, and it _is_ a good idea, but to keep the history straight let us remember that Sony/Philips first publicly announced the idea (CD-I) back in Feb, 1986. If CD-I consumer players hadn't been delayed so long, it's doubtful that CDTV would've been brought out. > To bring up yet another point, how can we make a CD-Rom base machine with >so few CD-ROM discs out in the market. I think that's the real beauty of CDTV... it has rather quickly brought CDROM attention and discs to Amiga hardware. The publicity has surely been worth its weight in gold to Commodore. BYTE's Computer Chronicles TV show this week in NC was on the last CES, and the first ten minutes featured CDTV. Quite a coup! >Just thought I'd get my two cents in. Me too ;-). Thx. kevin