Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!zephyr.ens.tek.com!cascade.ens.tek.com!bryand From: bryand@cascade.ens.tek.com (Bryan Duff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: CDTV News Keywords: CDTV CD-ROM Message-ID: <14615@zephyr.ens.tek.com> Date: 14 Jun 91 20:16:08 GMT References: <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@zephyr.ens.tek.com Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 42 In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: [stuff deleted] > 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. [other stuff deleted] First off I will admit I know little about either system so I won't make any claims about them. Now that the disclaimer is out of the way let me ask for a little information about these systems. Correct me if I am wrong but CD-I and CD-ROM are the storage protocols for the optical disks and really have little to do with what the systems (ie. CDTV et. al.) pull off the disk. What resolution is CD-ROM capable of? How would one go about upgrading the CDTV system to utilize any available increased resolution? Is it as simple as adding in a video board? Now what would be the cost of this enhanced system? I know that there aren't any CD-I systems on the market _yet_, but what is the expected price of these systems? Under $1000? Please, This is no flame, I just would like to try and get this in perspective. If a CD-I system is 15/24bit and costs $1500+ and a CD-ROM system that is 12bit for $800 and can be upgraded for a few hundred (just a guess.) Then might not the CD-I people come out with something similar to initially keep the cost down to lure poeple to their product? Just curious. | My views in no way reflect those of my employer | -- Bryan Duff Network Engineer Network Systems Corp.