Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun17.192156.6338@ncsu.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 19:21:56 GMT References: <30115@know.pws.bull.com> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 36 In <30115@know.pws.bull.com> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes: > >On a smaller note, does anyone know anything more about these rumors of DCTV >being used with CDTV? I'd like to hear more about CDTV's video port and how >well it can handle (how much room it has) DCTV being plugged into it. Will >this still provide a passthru where yet another card could be plugged into >the video port, and will it all fit in there or what? I can repeat some talk about it from a CES attendee and others on CIS: "I read in (I think) Communications Daily that Kodak says there's no way the CDTV could be made to work with the Photo-CD without a major overhaul, in effect a "CDTV-II". "Kodak will support Photo CD through a new add-in video card that plugs into the back of CDTV [...]. The Commodore Rep at the show estimated that this card would cost about $50. Frankly, I think CBM should eat the cost and make this thing standard, and allow it as a cheap, plug-in retrofit to existing CDTV units. It makes the video wonderful." "(BTW, the little card said "DCTV" on the back :-) But they're going to change the name... Don't want "CDTV DCTV" :-) "The unit was designed by Digital Creations. It's an output-only version of DCTV. At the show, it wasn't known [which company would market it]." "The only ones I saw looked very much like prototypes. Plugged in the back where it says "video slot", and also had a connector that passed through on the 23-pin port. Wouldn't work on an Amiga, since it goes in the CDTV video slot. I don't think the prototype had S/Video, but I'm sure the production units would put it back." "Commodore's PR firm didn't even know what I was talking about when I called them to ask about it." "DC gave a favorable NO COMMENT." That about covers it. Hope it helped. - kevin