Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I
Message-ID: <48058@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 28 Apr 91 20:20:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.233408.208@news.iastate.edu> <2600@public.BTR.COM> <1991Apr28.184508.27650@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp
Reply-To: lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (logan shaw)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Lines: 30

In article <1991Apr28.184508.27650@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <2600@public.BTR.COM> valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>>The CD-I has better graphics, yes, but on a television set you can't make
>>the difference.
>>
>	This is the untrue part that is my only serious concern
>for CDTVs success. Although it is true that physical resolution
>increases won't improve things much, COLOR resolution is still a
>major limiting factor. I don't know the exact number of colors a
>TV can display but it is FAR more than what the Amiga can,
>without DCTV or HAM-E that is.

Oh, piff.  Everybody knows the success of a product in the computer
industry is determined by three and a half factors:

  - When it is relesased / whether it becomes a standard.
  - Advertising / level of marketing hype
  - How much software is developed for it, and how quickly.
  - Price (if it's aimed at the home market).

Notice that the actual technical capability of the machine is _not_ a
factor here.

Later,
  Logan
-- 
   //  # "He said that He had your number; you cut the telephone line.
 \X/   #  You said you needed a reason; He said 'there ain't much time.'
 Logan #  You kept trying to avoid it; He kept knocking on the door.
 Shaw  #  In a flash it was over; you were a prisoner of war."  -Rez Band