Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: CDTV vs. CD-I again!: CES is here Message-ID: <1991Jun4.045255.16207@ncsu.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 04:52:55 GMT References: <1991Jun2.180445.27763@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 23 > I just finished reading a clarinet report on summer CES > highlights. The only CD-I vendor it mentioned as being at CES was > Magnavox. Their CD-I system will be shipping by October with a > list price of $1,400. No other companies were mentioned. They > mentioned "50 titles" to be released, but didn't name them. This > report sounds mighty good for CDTV, especially if software for it > keeps shipping! Yes, Magnavox (and I think Panasonic) will be the first brandnames here. Prices will be discounted, no doubt. Sales start in October, but I'm beginning to see quite a lot of CD-I press coverage already -- including last week's announcement that Nintendo has licensed its games to be put onto CD-I discs. Also, the June 1991 VIDEO magazine ran a short review of CDTV, which at least did answer one large question I had asked about here before: Unlike CD-I, which can play interleaved sound off the disc _while_ also loading in new video/program/sound data, CDTV must first load in any prerecorded audio data and then play it back from memory thru its normal Amiga 8-bit D/A system. I'm stunned. Can this be totally correct? kevin