Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV.. Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 91 21:09:50 GMT References: <1991Jun5.152659.25120@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun7.160034.3368@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 53 In article <1991Jun7.160034.3368@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: >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 > > CDTV comes with 1Meg of RAM. How much does the A500P cost? Does that make your (generic "your" 7-) cost go up? There is NO trap. CDTV still can control the CD, VCRs and Laserdisks. And it is cheap enough to make any computer into an infrared remote controller. This argument is moot anyway, because CDTV has ZERO capabilities of a VCR and a VCR has ZERO capabilities of CDTV. With what you propose to buy with your money, you can watch movies, listen to music, and will have a small/slow computer. CDTV has the ability to store 15,000 HAM mode images (uncompressed) and call them up on demand under software control. You can't do anything like this with a separate VCR, CD Player and an A500. And this is only a single example of capabilities that CDTV has. But hey, I'm not saying that CDTV is worth it at all. All I'm saying is that what CDTV is capable of isn't well understood. CDTV WILL be successful if there is software that uses its capabilities well and is really worth using and no cheaper platform can do acceptably. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************