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From: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Masaru Sugai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CDTV & Fujitsu's FM-Towns?
Message-ID: <5707@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 22:22:27 GMT
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Reply-To: masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai)
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In article <1991Apr23.205539.20699@ariel.unm.edu> kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:
>I also heard (or actually saw illustrated) that CDTV 
>will also have a preferences selection for what language you prefer to 
>play your video games in (like japanese, finish, german, french, ect.)
>
>It also looks like CBM will be puting out a CD-ROM frive that 
>will run CDTV software on the other amiga's (AC said this would 
>probably not be out for a year, but it is planned however).

I spotted CDTV at my Amiga dealer last Saturday. At first I was excited to find
Japanese words "TORIATUKAI CHUUI" (fragile) on the package. I asked a guy and
he showed me startup screen of CDTV and its multilanguage menu supports at least
American, English, Germany, French, Chinese, and Japanese.  I also asked him to
bring up Japanese tutorial, but apparently I need a specific language edition of
CD-ROM. I wonder they could have stored short greeting messages on their free CD :(

To add a piece of info to FM-Towns, both machine can play CD+ titles, and I remember 
Fujitsuu made use of Fleet Woodmac's album to tout their machine has a variety of
sources in US of A. I guess they are more serious than CDTV, as FM-Towns is 386
based, and there is no way to simulate CD-I in any event.

BTW, I thought C= has no plan to sell CDTV in Japanese market, as they are little
known to Japanese customers. Our customers have keen eyes on AV gadgets (I'm not
talking we are superior by any sense) and they don't buy anything which as artifacts
on their product. That is the reason some personal compters (FM-Towns, X68000, MSX)
have a rich color graphics (>16 colors) built in at afforable prices...
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