Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!lll-winken!taco!hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu!kdarling From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I Message-ID: <1991Jun20.102026.24098@ncsu.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 10:20:26 GMT References: <7284@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun16.054007.10198@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 24 >>Not quite. CD-I consumer intro was originally scheduled for late 1988. >> >>However, yes, it's rather interesting that CD-I graphics modes are >>still incredibly nicer... all these years later. >> >Thats the easy part. > >If I say I will ship a A7000 laptop, 4096x4096*32 8 playfields 4GIG of memory >4 68050's etc. etc. end 1991 you can say the same about this machine in 1994. >So making the specs is easy shipping the thing for a nice price is the hard >part. A very good point... in general. However, not wholly applicable in this case. The first CD-I player was demonstrated in 1988. And a friend of mine built a cheap but nice gfx board in early 1989 which used the main CD-I video chip. (it's available off the shelf, btw... something like $15 to $25). Plus, CD-I players have been in use industrially for way over a year. Let me put it a different way: Even that long ago it was obvious to CD-I types (at least) that capabilities far beyond the best gfx cheaply available at the time, could and should be designed and used for a 1990's player. cheers - kevin