Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Message-ID: <1151@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 24 Apr 91 11:36:27 GMT References: Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 14 In article roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) writes: > CD rental places are not about >to pop up all over the place anytime soon. It was video tape rentals that >killed Beta, not home user sales. Interactive CDs will be a purchase war, >not rental. I don't know about the situation in USA. But here, video shops also rent audio CDs from the same shelves as video cassettes. So this marketing aspect applies to interactive CDs identically, I think. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk