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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: CDTV's are here.
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.042245.9640@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 04:22:45 GMT

In article <2257@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>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)
>
	At the WOA show there were about 8-9 different
applications, and I believe about 3-4 CD+G disks shown (i.e. for
sale). CD+G IS primitive, but that isn't really Commodore's
fault. They didn't make the standard. Also, the better the
grapics the more you are taking away from the sound quality. Some
of them were decent/interesting, but they all just showed the
lyrics with some background pictures.
	The World Atlas, although some small problems (the one I
found was that Israel was spelled Isreal), is still a great
product. The whole word is on maps, there are cities, flags,
cultural music, pictures, statistics, etc. Very well done and
very easy to access.
	There was the American Heritage Dictionary which was
nice. There were Time Line/Encyclopedia disks (2). There were
about 3 games, including Defender of the Crown and two
shoot-em-ups. Oh yes, there was that detective mystery game.
There was a "Barney Bear" educational "interactive storybook".
	There was also a list of 50 titles by June, including
stuff from Grolier's and Guiness (book of world records). The
CDTV IS an Amiga, which gives it all the advantages that come
with that.

>=====================================================================
>Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
>                  "Duct Tape is like the Force...
>It has a Light Side, a Dark Side, and it holds the Universe together"
>=====================================================================


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.