Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia.. Keywords: Digital Video CDTV Amiga Message-ID: <1250@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 28 May 91 06:17:29 GMT References: <62085@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> <1991May22.015324.11494@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1991May27.123818.20713@pa.dec.com> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 25 In article <1991May27.123818.20713@pa.dec.com> neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes: > >Can anybody enlighten me what the CDTV (Commodore Digital Total Vision ? ) --> Dynamic > It seems to be related to providing a cpability for doing digitized video >on the Amiga. Uh, yes, too. It simply is an Amiga 500 with 1 MB RAM plus an integrated CD-ROM drive that also can be used for standard CD audio. Plus you have little niceties as a MIDI port and an interface for a Personal Memory Card. So, you can do all sorts of animations or play back digitized video just like with all other Amigas. The CD-ROM is accessed via an own filesystem just like a read-only harddisk. But you have absolutely standard file and directory structure on it, nothing spectacular. > What kind of compression scheme is used ? How does it >work ? It works nice :-). There is NO provided compression in hardware or system software. The standard software compression schemes like in existing Amiga animation packages are used. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk