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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: CDTV & Fujitsu's FM-Towns?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 04:10:18 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.205908.25051@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> njg2@po.CWRU.Edu (J. Norell Guttman) writes:
>
>What is the difference between CDTV and Fujitsu's FM-Towns?  I have
>seen the Fujitsu in Niigata, Japan and was extremely impressed. I think
>it is a 386 based machine but the software available is quite large and
>impressive: much better than any Amiga game!  One of the games I was
>playing had video from the CD and the graphics from the FM-Towns overlayed!
>The sound also appeared to be hi-fi stereo?  What do you guyz think?
>
	You can only read 170K/sec off of a CD, which is exactly
the speed necessary to read "CD Quality Sound" off of a CD. They
might have been using compression, but otherwise you can't get
full CD sound as well as something else.

>				J.Norell Guttman
>				njg2@po.cwru.edu
>				Just a Freshman at CWRU
>				AFS Exchange Student: Niigata, Japan


	-- Ethan

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