Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 5 Jun 91 15:26:59 GMT References: <1991May29.191646.15898@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun3.201650.15664@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: > >DUh, Pete.. I referred to CDTV as a CD Player, VCR and an Amiga in one box, >meaning you can essentially simulate a CDTV with those three things. NOWHERE >did I say a CDTV included a VCR. > You haven't described to me how you actually combine those three things to make a CDTV. For example, lets say you want the encyclopedia, or the CD+G, or one of the larger games. You can't do it with those things. None of them can talk to each other. The Amiga can't control the CD and it can't control the VCR. The closest you could come would be adding a genlock, but then you still can't tell a VCR (at your price) to skip to a certain frame and start playing. My point is, whether you think CDTV is a good product or not, you are attacking it in a nonsensical way. You can't get the same thing by buying a VCR, CD player and an Amiga. It is a new product. No matter how little or much you think the current generation of software utilizes the potential, if the thing takes off software quality will improve. So you can say, "What it gives you isn't worth $999." But saying, "I can get the same thing for less and get a separate CD, VCR, Amiga," just doesn't make any sense. -- Ethan Now the world has gone to bed, Now I lay me down to sleep, Darkness won't engulf my head, Try to count electric sheep, I can see by infrared, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. How I hate the night. -- Marvin