Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!vaxf.iastate.edu!TAAB5 From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA. References: <1991Jun12.192948.20028@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu><1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu>, Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 18:10:02 GMT Lines: 45 In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >> 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. > >As long as people can see two hands, two feet, and a head on their baby >pictures, they won't care... Look how many people use SLP on thier VCR's?! >I would say the video out of the CDTV is cleaner than SLP on a vcr. This will >allow them to take their pictures and lock them up in the can, and still allow >them to show them off to all their friends without destroying the pictures >with fingerprints. And if Commodore has cut a deal with Kodak, CD-I won't have >the Kodak name to parade around. Remember, Kodak isn't the only game in town. By the time that the Kodak systems are available, the CD-I machines will be out in force, and some Japanese company could easily come up with a device similar to Kodak's Photo-CD. A Canon XAPSHOT connected to a CD-I system could easily sub for a Photo-CD, for instance. I will say this again, in a different way: nless Commodore drastically improves the CDTV's color capabilities by time the Photo-CD systems become available, Commodore will be laughed out of the country. Commodore has a chance of beating the CD-I systems in the area of animation, but they do not have a ghost of a chance of beating them in the area of still pictures. The CDTV's pseudo-12-bit graphics pale against the 15/24-bit graphics of the CD-I systems. > >-- C-UseNet V0.42d > Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 > P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis > Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support > UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) > DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say. ------------------------------------------------------------- / 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. / -------------------------------------------------------