Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!ivem1!simon From: simon@ivem1.uucp (Simon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: <5414@network.ucsd.edu> Date: 30 May 91 23:00:57 GMT References: Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Organization: University of Calif. San Diego Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: ivem1.ucsd.edu In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > > >You might also want to keep in mind this: CDTV isnt popular. And if CDTV >still has its "everybody shut up about it" marketing strategy, it WILL flop. >Lets be serious, now.. How can a brand new product be "popular", especially since it's not even out in quantity for the public, YET. The Marketing Strategy is not to keep a hush hush about the CDTV, but rather, it's a timing strategy, where CBM is getting products out first, then advertising. > >$800 is a bit steep for the equivalent of a CD player, VCR and game machine. >For that much money, I could just as easilly go get an Amiga, with a cheap VCR >and CD to boot. The whole point of CDTV is "it's not a computer". Go ahead and buy the Amiga and VCR and CD drive. You know what you're doing. But the average computerphobe won't. Hence CDTV's introduction. > >From what I saw of CDTV, it didnt really "shock and impress" me... It has the >feel of more or less just an amusing toy for the rich. One that I would do >without, and would NOT recommend. > Me neither. I wouldn't call it a "toy" for $800+. I'd call it a "expensive peripheral". But I also have access to an Amiga, 386AT, Sun Sparcs, SGI Iris', and macs. I may not have much money, but I have fun :^} -- * Simon Lee * Southwestern Regional Resource for * * simon@ivem1.ucsd.edu * Intermediate Voltage * * sulee@ucsd.edu * Electron Microscopy, UC San Diego *