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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV's are here.
Keywords: CNN, CDTV
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Date: 7 Apr 91 19:40:14 GMT
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In article <1991Apr7.182022.28413@en.ecn.purdue.edu> huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner) writes:
>In article <9746@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) writes:
>>In article <2240@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>>>
>>>I suppose this is a little late, but Amazing Computing here in San
>>>Antonio got their first shipment of CDTV's in last Monday. C= said they
>>>were the first ones to be shipped for retail sales.
>
>CDTV also got some press today on CNN headline news.  In their coverage

Amazing received  6 CDTV's in the shipment & have already sold several
of them. I went in yesterday to look at them before they were all gone
:^). They had the C= demo, the World Atlas (which is nice but has some
bugs in its control software - go try to zoom in too far on Paris & you
end up in Africa), several CD-ROM games (just repackageing of existing
games and some InfoCom-type games), and some CD+G audio CD's.  The
graphics images, etc. were interesting, but were horribly primitive.
Does anyone know of any CD+G (audio) which have decent graphics stuck
on them?

They didn't have anything which showed of any animation capabilities either
(at least we couldn't find anything)

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