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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: CDTV Improvements.
Message-ID: <1218@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 91 12:39:14 GMT
References: <1991May8.202349.17673@news.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1991May8.202349.17673@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   Commodore wants people to put their CDTV machines in their living
>rooms, along with their stereo systems and their VCRs.  It would seem
>to me that, if people are going to do this, they are going to want to
>easily connect their VCRs and CDTVs to their TV sets at the same time.
>They could go out and purchase a switcher, but they would then have
>to be constantly getting up and switching manually between their VCRs
>and CDTVs.
>   To make it easier for people to use their VCRs and CDTVs together,
>I think Commodore should seriously consider making the genlocks 
>standard hardware.

You don't need a switcher to comfortably switch between CDTV and normal
TV or VCR! It's already in there! You can loop the CDTV into your antenna
cable, and on the CDTV remote control you have a button to switch between
CDTV operation and TV signal fed through. They are not dumb... 

And a genlock is really a nice thing. But it's not free and not needed
by everyone. So I think it's really a good idea to have it optional.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk