Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!nwickham From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr19.234710.26180@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 19 Apr 91 23:47:10 GMT References: <1991Apr18.161346.3409@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 36 In article <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > Also, you have to expect that most of the people around >here are NOT the target audience for CDTV and CD-I. These are >hardened computer users who are used to Shadow of the Beast and >Badge Demos. They KNOW great graphics, and expect it. > I don't believe that photorealistic graphics are >necessary for CDTV to succeed. I think that HAM digitized images >are close enough that most people will consider them >satisfactory, although certainly CD-I will be better. > -- Ethan > One of the most important things that Kevin mentioned, in my opinion, is that CD-I has some Hollywood professionals behind it. Now who are we talking about? People who understand the human psyche better than most psychologists and who've proved that they do by their success. ...people who advertise and sell floor wax to women who have no-wax floors. ...people who made Ron Reagan the "Teflon President." These people will fill their CDs with all kinds of subliminal content and will design specific 'entertainment' for specific personallity types. These people know what they're doing and they are good at what they do. If CD-I has backing from Hollywood profesionals and CDTV does not, CDTV will not have a prayer. You know, I really wonder about C= sometimes. Yes, I think that it is possible for the slick marketing people at Apple to pull the Desk Top Video market rug out from under Amiga's feet. I've always assumed that C= was a big company with true 'profesionals' who understood the wicked ways of the modern world but geese. Just where is West Chester Pa. anyway? NCW