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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV's are here.
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Date: 9 Apr 91 06:02:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.042803.11141@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <8441@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>
>>Oh, one other curious note: CDTV does not have an electronic motor-driven
>>eject of the disc and its "caddy". It has a mechanical pushbutton next
>>to the CD slot. For a thousand dollar unit I was kind of surprised at
>>this.  PUsh that button too briskly and the caddy comes flying out the
>>slot and onto the floor.  At least it did on Creative's demo unit and
>>the salesguys were constantly warning customers about pushing the
>>eject button with too much gusto. 
>>
I wondered why that cartridge deal was there in the first place,
rather than a regular CD-player style drawer.  I was told that 
the cartridge system adheres to the CD-I standard, such as it 
is, presumably with intent to make CDTV compatible with CD-I
whenever the latter should see fit to exist.  

Is this true?  What say the Wise Ones?

>>Harv Laser                                      {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser

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