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From: fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture
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Date: 21 Apr 91 03:10:23 GMT
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At One Byte Computers in Quaker Hill CT, we have an actual CDTV set up and
allow people to look at it and play around. The reaction to the machine so
far has been quite positive; people LOVE to see Lou Reed's NEW YORK CD's
graphics, and the world database is quite admirable. Nobody seems to like
the price, however; $600 is about what they'd pay, but not $999. The local
IBM snob came in and snorted, "I can get CD-ROM readers for $500." Then
I mentioned that this was a CD-ROM player WITH a computer, not one that NEEDS
a computer. He went, "Oh, in that case, it's a good deal." He walked away
impressed. We discovered that if you plug a standard Amiga external floppy
into CDTV and turn it on with a bootable floppy in the drive, you'll get a
Workbench 1.3 screen. Haven't tried it with bootable games, though...

Current Amiga owners all mentioned that they want a CDTV device for their
Amigas. And they want it NOW...


                                                --Rick Wrigley
                                                fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
                                ~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~