Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!jonabbey From: jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I Message-ID: <389@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 17:59:59 GMT References: <7284@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin Lines: 27 thomas@capitol.capitol.com (Mark Thomas) writes: | Other than Groliers, almost no one doing CD-I is doing CDTV. We certainly | aren't. Neither is AIM, Fathom Pictures, Spinnaker Software, or the the | people in Florida whose names I can't remember. Now, how many of those companies that are doing CD-I exclusively have recieved financial support from Phillips? How many are partially owned by Phillips? To be fair, I wouldn't expect a lot of companies who are doing their discs through CDTV publishing to be doing CD-I ports either.. Marketing will be key, you see.. CDTV is competent enough to do the job if the software and marketing is there. If people start associating 'CDTV' with those nifty computer-CD things that have all the really cool educational programs available, the fact that CD-I can show many more colors may not be as significant. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan David Abbey \ "Dudez! Gimme a quarter!" - Aldo Cella the university of texas at austin \ - Dedicated to the Cygnian in all of us. computer science/math?/psychology? \ jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu