Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV-Real Stuff! Message-ID: <1991Apr15.131009.14068@ncsu.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 13:10:09 GMT References: <1991Apr12.065004.19162@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr14.221857.6806@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 29 >> CDTV copied ALL of CD-I's concepts, from the idea of being an A/V component, >> right down to the IR controller, personal RAM card, and expandability. > >Well, except for the compatibility with existing consumer computer technology. > >> Unfortunately it didn't also copy the video technology or disc standard. > >If it had, it wouldn't be an Amiga. It might or might not be a better product >for all of that, but Commodore is (rightly) sticking to the knitting here. Ah, but it _isn't_ an Amiga. Let me explain that: CDTV will not be sold as a computer, nor does anyone expect that most owners will do any expansion. This is an _appliance_ which just happens to use an A500 as the controller. The only reasons in this case to stick with existing technology were to greatly lessen R&D costs, and so that current authoring tools could be used. Sure, some Amigas will be sold to new authors, but the number will be very tiny. Put it another way: if the player had a _Mac_ core, what real benefits would Mac owners gain? Can you think of any? What if it had an Atari core? Any? Okay, some say: well, it'll make CBM some money they can use for the Amiga. Hey, that could be said even if CBM had used their PC clones as the core. And anything developed as an application or addon for the amiga core, could've and/or should've been developed _anyway_. OTOH, it's diverting personnel and advertising funds from the Amiga itself, which is what most of us care about. Aren't there 2.5 million Amigans which need attention, more so than A/V nuts? sincerely - kevin