Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: So WHERE is the 3000UX and CDTV Advertising??? Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 16:07:50 GMT References: <26196@know.pws.bull.com> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 43 In article <26196@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: > > I've heard nothing but good things about the 3000UX from people who have >been lucky enough to use it. Sounds like a sure thing in the workstation >market that could really help Commodore, both money and image wise. Does >anybody know why Commodore hasn't started shipping the thing yet? It seems to >me that with each day that passes more 3000UX prospects opt for something >else. With other vendors rushing to push out their own UNIX workstations >(Atari, etc.) I would think that Commodore would want to have it out ASAP. Look in a Unix rag for the "Born to run SVR4" ads for the A3000UX. You don't advertise in GameBoy Monthly(Or AmigaWorld) to sell Unix. > This brings up another major question. CDTV is shipping to many locations >now but nobody seems to know about it. I was impressed when I used the unit >and I even knew ahead of time what it could do. Where is the advertising? >Where is the tons of software that they said was going to be out for it upon >release? Where are the major electronic chains (Software Etc, Waldensoft) >that were going to carry it? Don't wait around on this one Commodore. Push >this thing TODAY. Ah, so far Commodore has been using news outlets to advertise the CDTV, I have seen some talk of the CDTV in the Detroit Free Press(May 9th) in a Knight-Ridder Newspapers story. I know Knight-Ridder has outlets in Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, etc, so seeing this on the business/electronics page is probably going to wake up nerve sensors in the people who take interest in these sorts of things. Once advertising does commence, these people will say "Oh yeah, this was the product they talked about last month in the Free Press." The only thing I know is Commodore will not ignore this market when it comes to advertising the CDTV, people who live around Detroit have ALOT of money. We have always been blitzed by Commodore's ad campaigns in the past (the floating house deal was shown every night on the 5pm news) There was also a blurb in Popular Science last October, so I expect to see something there soon. -- Ronald Kushner Life In Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!)