Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1991Apr20.065435.17965@ncsu.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 06:54:35 GMT References: <1991Apr18.161346.3409@ncsu.edu> <1991Apr18.174928.21079@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr19.234710.26180@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 30 In <1991Apr19.234710.26180@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: > 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? (My gut impression is that Bushnell took advantage of their CD-I ignorance.) But in some ways we're being too hard on CBM. They _have_ enlisted at least a few "Hollywood" types for CDTV. Lucasfilm is an example, I think. See, usable raw material (that is, movie/sound samples with copy rights) will be one important factor in I-TV. This is partly why CD-I backers acquired Polygram, Columbia, MCA and so on. Not just for CD-I, but for future interactive projects not yet announced, or perhaps even thought of. One of the best quotes on this topic comes from a CDROM Market Analysis done a few years ago by LINK Resources Corp and InfoTech: "To be assured of success in the wide marketplace, CD-I [and now CDTV] must offer a completely new kind of experience. It must be an experience that bears returning to frequently. It must compete successfully with existing uses of time, whether entertainment-, education- or work-related. "And the CD-I industry must begin now to (re)create what both compact disc audio players and videocassette recorders were born with: a pre-existing storehouse of content (in the latter cases, records and movies) ready to be transferred to a new medium." best - kevin