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From: valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I
Message-ID: <2600@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 91 10:32:18 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.233408.208@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: BTR Communications, Mtn. View, CA
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In article <1991Apr27.233408.208@news.iastate.edu> taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu
writes:
>
>I'm afraid, tho, that the CD-I product will be more successful simply
>because of the tremendous amount of capital backing it up.

I contest this argument. First of all, the CD-I has been "about to ship in
October" for 4 years now. CDTV on the other hand is a real product. It is
shipping, and titles are already available for it.

Ziltch for CD-I.

Secondly, Philips has fallen into financial trouble lately. That will hamper
them from promoting the product adequately. Commodore on the other hand is
doing better than ever, if your take the stock price as a measure.

(Too bad you can't take the stock price as a measure.)

Software is easy to port to the CDTV, and the development platform is
widely available and mature. Hah! for CD-I. Philips has gone the right
way by fetching a real-time multitasking OS for their machine, and
perhaps a better one at that, but the market will not consider this a
factor.
 
The CD-I has better graphics, yes, but on a television set you can't make
the difference.

At this point in time, CDTV looks like the sure winner. Only a brilliant
marketing campain could propel CD-I beyond the growing success of the CDTV.
But Commodore could not possibly be beaten at the marketing game, could it?

Valentin  (duh)
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