Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!csn!boulder!tcr From: tcr@tcr.UUCP (John B. Sobernheim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV vs CD-I again (long) Summary: It'd be worth ~$300 to me to get CDTV on my TV _and_ CDTV on my Amiga. Message-ID: <396@tcr.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 91 15:18:00 GMT References: <1991Apr8.085845.24662@ncsu.edu> Organization: The Computer Room Lines: 26 In article <1991Apr8.085845.24662@ncsu.edu>, kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: > Yet the major sticking point to me still is: it would make more sense > to buy an Amiga and add a CDROM drive, than to buy a CDTV and then add > on the disk drive, keyboard, mouse, etc... if expansion is your plan. Kevin, I think that for the extra ~$300 or so that CDTV costs over what I guess the CD ROM drive add-on for an Amiga will cost, that there would be real benefits in buying the stand-alone CDTV unit. The CDTV can be used as intended (in the family room with TV & Stereo hookups) and also as a ROM drive for daddy's (mommy's, et al) Amiga. In some preliminary experimentation with the unit here I've got a bootable WB 1.3 disk bringing up a "newshell aux:" to an Amiga 2000 and a "loadwb" to CDTV. This allows two users, the "computer" user and the CDTV user to access the CDTV. The computer user uses cd0:, the CDTV user points and clicks. The computer user can take his pick of any of the left over video outputs of the CDTV (after the family room TV is all hooked up), IE. S-video, Composite, RF, RGB, and route that back into his multi-faceted 1084x monitor. There are few limitations to this configuration from the computer users perspective and the advantages should be obvious, the CDTV is used as intended and more. With a little help from a tool like Dnet (I have no experience with it yet) for the computer user and JakeBoard for the CDTV user, even these small disadvantages may well be overcome. > best - kevin --- John Sobernheim tcr@tcr.UUCP | ...boulder!tcr!{tcr!root!news} The Computer Room CIS 76625,1210 | 76625.1210@compuserve.com Denver, Colorado "But Moma, that's where the fun is!" (Manfred Man, BS)