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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
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Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.132410.29459@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:24:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.192156.6338@ncsu.edu>, kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>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."

   I agree that Commodore should make the device standard.  By making
it optional, Commodore is guaranteeing that there will never be any CDTV
titles available to support it.  Since all CD-I titles will support 
15/24-bit video, making the card standard would narrow the color 
capability differences between the CD-I and CDTV.

>That about covers it.  Hope it helped.  - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>

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