Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: <1991Jun7.160034.3368@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1991 16:00:34 GMT In article mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes: >In article <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >> 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. > >Point of information: The Amiga CAN control the CD and it CAN >control a number of VCRs and LaserDisk players. > Hah! You fell into the trap! 8-) The whole point was that you (generic you) could get a CD, VCR and Amiga for less than a CDTV. That would require the VCR and CD to cost under $300 for both. There ain't no VCRs or CD players that'll come in with computer control for that price. -- 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