Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!pab From: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: <1991Jun3.201650.15664@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cwns5.ins.cwru.edu Reply-To: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) References: <1991May29.191646.15898@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 20:16:50 GMT Lines: 29 In a previous article, arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) says: > >You flamed me anyways. Think about it, Ethan. No one is going to spend $800 on >a CD player, a VCR and an Amiga in one box. > >I could run out and get a CD player, a VCR, AND an Amiga, and have a more >impressive and capable array of hardware, then wouldI get with a CDTV.. > >And for LESS MONEY. Well, first of all the CDTV does not contain a VCR. $800 is not a bad price at all for a computer and CD-Player combo. An Amiga 500 costs around five or six hundred dollars and I think Xetek wants (not sure) around 500 or so for there CD-Rom player, so an Amiga and CD-Rom combo would cost around $1000. Also you don't have everything nicely integrated in one box that looks at home as part of an entertainment center and you don't get the remote control. CDTV is aimed at a different market than the Amiga 500. The audiophile/videophile is the market CDTV is aimed at, I know of more than a few people who have spent seven or eight hundred dollars on an audio CD-Player alone, not to mention things like the laser video disk players, high end audio cassette tape decks, DAT tape decks, and other high end audio equipment. -- Pete Babic - pab@po.cwru.edu /// I'd rather be BOATING!! | /// /\ Member of A.C.E. | \\\ /// /--\MIGA (American Coaster Enthusiasts) | \\\/// The future is here now!