Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 19:40:07 GMT References: <7284@vela.acs.oakland.edu><1991Jun16.054007.10198@ncsu.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 56 kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >Uh. Most people haven't seen CDTV units in THEIR local stores, either :-) > >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. Interesting, I got a mailing from Slipped Disk, Madison Heights, MI, saying: CDTV HAS ARRIVED! Come in today for a free demostration. Hum, and I am number 2,800 or so on their mailing list, so there are at least 3000 people in Detroit that have been mailed this thing...Talking to someone associated with them, they said they never heard of the hush-hush crap people keep talking about on the net...They even got the CDTV box in the front window... But then again, the only time I I saw the CDTV there, it was playing some headbanging CD+G's...And the way they had it set up, the CD didn't sound to good on the 1084 monitor... Don't get me wrong, I don't have a bad impression of the CDTV, I plan on getting one as soon as the price dropps. It will the 3rd Commodore unit in use in this house...I have never been impressed with Maganivox's products, and when you think of games, I think of that Odyssey thingie...I need something that plays good games here, I have not bought many games for the A2000, but it seems that I have had problems with some games not working with one floppy drive and then haggling to get my money back(Necular War if your wondering which game)...A game machine would be the ultimate solution...Plus the A2000 is in the other room and mostly hogged by my sister. A CDTV and a floppy drive sounds like a good solution...I just got to get somemore information on it, like where it is assembled, content, etc... Too bad they have a green(blue?) floursent display, all my RCA equipment has orange, and I find it easier to sleep with the orange, its not as bright at night...I noticed the A3000 green LED is also VERY BRIGHT AT NIGHT...It is VERY VERY bothersome...WHO is responciable for what colors they decide to use??? I would have perfered Orange there as well...Its not as bright at night....Don't they have people at Commodore that do this kind of research? One half of the decision to buy an RCA VCR was the orange display...I never realized the A3000 was such a bright green until the first night... Now that there are finally game machines comming out with serial ports(CDTV), will there be online services JUST to play multi-player games on?? Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is it just too early to speculate? -- C-UseNet V0.42e 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.