Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!att!dptg!ulysses!princeton!njsmu!mccc!dworkin!jtravis From: jtravis@dworkin.Amber.mccc.edu (Jim, Sysop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia Subject: CDTV Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 03:07:00 GMT Sender: bbs@dworkin.UUCP Organization: Labyrinth II BBS Lines: 31 I look forward to the CDTV addition to my A3000..my mother already wants one, mostly because we've gone through 2 computers (my old 2000HD and and a Compaq 386e) and she can't deal with either of them. Slower as it was (technically speaking only), she preferred the Amiga, but BOTH systems confused the heck out of her. It's not nomenclature or anything like one would expect - she'd just not from our generation. We have had LONG conversations on the phone concerning "computer" issues - a 2 hour talk about 3.5" disks and "what is write-enabled and what is write-protected" comes to mind. All she wants to do is just sit in front of it and have it DO something. She's got other things to do with her life. Appliance time. CDTV may do well. CBM announced that 2 new technologies recently (read 'em on Prodigy) that will signifigantly speed up CDTV reads without extra hardware. Also, a previous post from the Prod suggested more than one manuafacturer of CDTV, under a consortium, headed (in suggestion) by a major japanese media company (who's not particularly pleased with the state of CD-I). This is all still speculative from what I read, although word may come as early as later this month. It'd be nice. Still, if this were to happen, CDTV might be unstoppable. Now if we could do something about Marc Barrett. ..and now the commercial.. --------///----------------------------------------------------------- /// Jim Trascapoulos * CSAccess BBS * 609-584-8774 /// *** Usenet: jtravis@dworkin.amber.mccc.Edu *** \\\ /// "If you're not going to grab the bull by the horns while \\\/// the iron is in the fire, then get off the pot." - Dave Barry --\XX/----------------------------------------------------------------