Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken!taurus!aldebaran!schweige
From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <2371@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 13 Jun 91 04:17:08 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu|
Reply-To: schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
Lines: 39

In article <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu| taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:

|   Wasn't the MPEG standard completed last December?  If so, I don't
|know what Commodore is waiting for.

I've heard conflicting stories on this.  Anyone know for sure whether or not
MPEG actually is completed?


|>Commodore announced plans to make CDTV compatible with Kodak's new
|>Photo CD system. Photo CDs, planned for June 1992 introduction, can
|>store up to 100 35-millimeter photographic images on writable CD-
|>ROM discs. Consumers will be able to insert the Photo CD discs into
|>the CDTV player and view their high-resolution photographs on
|>standard TV sets, Commodore said. 
|
|   This sounds nice, but the problem is that the CDTV's color 
|capabilities are hardly photographic, especially compared to the CD-I
|systems.  Unless the color capabilities of the CDTV are drastically
|improved, the limited color of the CDTV will not do justice to 
|digitized true-color stills.

One major point to take into consideration when comparing CDTV to CD-I - 
CDTV is shipping and being sold, CD-I is not.

|  -------------------------------------------------------------
| / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
|/  ISU COM S Student  | Internet: XGR39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU   /      
|------------------------------------------------------------    
|\        The great thing about standards is that          /
| \       there are so many of them to choose from.       /
|  -------------------------------------------------------


-- 
*******************************************************************************
Jeff Schweiger	      Standard Disclaimer   	CompuServe:  74236,1645
Internet (Milnet):				schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
*******************************************************************************