Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!lmbailey From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I Message-ID: <7308@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 06:59:54 GMT References: <7284@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun16.054007.10198@ncsu.edu> Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings Lines: 72 In article <1991Jun16.054007.10198@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: | lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes: | >In article arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes: | >| | >| Again, this is the reason why CD-I will beat out CDTV in the home-based | >| multimedia race.. CD-I is supported, CDTV is not. | > | >It IS? Show me a CD-I machine and the software for it. I don't see any | >at my local Sears or Montgomery Wards. I have yet, in fact, seen ANY | >CD-I machine outside of prototypes at trade shows. | | Uh. Most people haven't seen CDTV units in THEIR local stores, either :-) Here in the Detroit area we have some around. I've played with one at my local Amiga dealer and he's even sold a few. | | National CDTV availability isn't scheduled until what? September? | Might be happenstance, but that could be a clever way of catching the | fallout from CD-I advertising and coverage around that time. Perhaps. If it works and increases sales, then good for them. | | >Where do you think a lot of the early CDTV software has come from? It | >was from CD-I developers who have as of yet to make any money on their | >efforts. | | Okay, I'll bite. Got some disc title names? They both have Groliers, | I think. Anything else? Groliers is one that comes to mind. The issue being, it is OUT for CDTV and can be purchased, even if it is geographical availability is limited, it is still available in parts of the country which is more than CD-I can claim at this time. | | Side issue: I noticed that most of the CDTV titles are $50 or more, retail. | Anyone know what street prices are like? Thanks! Depends on the store. Pricing from some has been knocked down $10 or so around here. | | > Phillips has been promising CD-I for the last 6 years. SIX | >YEARS. Almost as long as the Amiga has been on the market. | | Not quite. CD-I consumer intro was originally scheduled for late 1988. Phillips has been at it for quite sometime and there were manufacturers promising CD-I "real soon now" way back when. | | However, yes, it's rather interesting that CD-I graphics modes are | still incredibly nicer... all these years later. | | kevin Perhaps thats due to the fact that they've probably only just started adding the graphics aspects in seeing as it's not even available anywhere yet. I am not saying it doesn't have it's advantages, but it's biggest disadvantage is that it isn't available now and CDTV is. Laurana -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ |Just another lemming... | Yet another Amiga maniac set loose | | | on the world...and you thought things| |lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu | couldn't get any worse. |