Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN Message-ID: <46167@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 25 Mar 91 20:17:40 GMT References: <1991Mar24.204229.26637@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 50 In article <1991Mar24.204229.26637@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes: > True, the CDTV will accept a keyboard, floppy drive, and mouse. However, >none of these are standard, and all have to be added later. This makes the >CDTV totally inadequate for use as a desktop computer. Commodore needs ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ >something like the CDTV, but with the keyboard, mouse, floppy drive, and >AmigaOS 2.0 as standard hardware. > > -MB- What you are asking for is available as the A500 (when 2.0 is released in ROM) with the A690. CDTV/CD-ROM peripherals will also be available for the 2000 and 3000. Why make a whole other version of the CDTV when the existing Amiga line fits the bill? Besides, C= might not be able to get a good enough sales return on such a device for the R&D spent. They'd have a hard time going below the low price of the A500, even coupled with the A690. Most buyers would probably either get the CDTV and not think of it as a computer or get an Amiga and get the CDTV periphs. I think it makes a *hell* of a lot of sense for the CDTV to _not_ have a standard keyboard and mouse. (I might have put a floppy in it, but that's easily remedied.) After all, it's not _supposed_ to be a computer. It's a multimedia audio/video _component_. Joe Consumer doesn't want to hook a computer to his A/V system. He wants to hook up this neat, new device that brings this new media to his home. Chances are that Joe Consumer is a compu-phobe and wouldn't buy a computer. After all, if you want a 'desktop computer' go buy a 'desktop computer.' If you want a multimedia A/V component, you're not _going_ to want to _buy_ a 'desktop computer.' It'd be silly to try and market _another_ version of the CDTV with a stock keyboard and floppy. Commodore might have a discounted package, though. As for 2.0 in the CDTV, who knows? I think C= doing a good job with the CDTV. I even buried my anticipation for its release and cheered when I heard that it was being delayed to allow more software titles to be completed before it's initial release. They've learned their lesson about releasing machines and _then_ getting the software made. BTW, has anybody had the sick idea of a CDTV par-netted to your existing system? That way you could use your HD (assuming you own one) or reverse the connection and read from CD-ROMs onto your Amiga. Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd