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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
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Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I
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Date: 3 May 91 07:13:19 GMT
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>>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, CDTV is shipping now]
> Secondly, Philips has fallen into financial trouble lately. That will
> hamper them from promoting the product adequately.  ^^^^^^

That was _last_ year's news.  Shortly after that posting, Reuters' news was:

  " Philips' net profit form normal operations during the first quarter rose
  to 135 million guilders, compared with 6 million guilders a year ago. The
  results surprised stock market analysts, who had been expecting a loss of
  between 10 million and 30 million guilders.
    Operating income rose to 655 million guilders from 450 million in the
  same quarter of 1990. The increase was attributed to turnaround in two
  loss-making divisions: professional products and electronic components."

> Software is easy to port to the CDTV, and the development platform is
> widely available and mature. Hah! for CD-I. 

Easy to port _what_?  Games, sure.  Not much else currently fits the idea
of arrow-button driven titles visible from a couch 6 feet away :-).  It's
a slightly different ballpark here.  As for CDTV having a mature CDROM and
CD-quality audio development system... please tell us more.

It was also suggested that the market won't consider the OS a factor.
True. It also won't give a damn about _how_ the disc was created ;-).

> The CD-I has better graphics, yes, but on a television set you can't make
> the difference.

I'll let others respond to that.

> 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.

I've been away... did I miss something demonstrating this "growing success"?
 thanks! - kev <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>

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