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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: What the heck IS "Interactive TV"? (long)
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Date: 15 Apr 91 16:42:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.111414.10624@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>Announced title (available and pending) counts seem very similar for both.
>If I understand you tho, you're guessing that many Amiga games will be quickly
>copied onto discs for CDTV.  Hadn't heard that yet, but it does belatedly
>remind me that Sony and Nintendo have signed a deal on cdrom game R&D.
>
	Psygnosis, Sierra On-Line, and one other game company I
can't remember are porting to CDTV. They have a lot of hit game
titles from both action and thinking sides of the spectrum.

>> DCTV provides DYUV color the same as CD-I.
>
>That's the first I'd heard that about DCTV. Please tell us more details!
>In fact, I haven't yet seen a decent article up here about DCTV's guts.
>Got a file or two you can post over in .graphics or .hardware?  (There
>are some questions from others there too).  
>
	Ohh. I think I understand. At one point I was saying that
DCTV provided TV quality video and you thought I was crazy. You
probably assumed I was typing CDTV. No, no!
	DCTV, by Digital Creations, plugs into the Amiga RGB port
and gives a composite output, perfect for output into a VCR. It
gives the full color spectrum of NTSC and almost equal
resolution. I saw Back to the Future III playing (5 minutes) off
of a hard drive and through DCTV and the image quality was
indistinguishable from my TV. Now, I realize you can't play back
full screen real time off of the CD, but with compression you
can. Also, since this already uses some interesting techniques
the image is only about 100K/frame, so you can do quarter screen
as is with no special tricks.

>thx - Kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu> feeling better after fighting a cold ;-)


	-- Ethan

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