Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!clout!chinet!miroc!reaper!mmm From: mmm@reaper.Chi.IL.US (Michael Marvin Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: CDTV article in Electronic Engineering Times Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 04:55:44 GMT References: <1991Jun23.032610.17492@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Lines: 45 In article <1991Jun23.032610.17492@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> swoodcoc@isis.cs.du.edu (Steven Markus Woodcock) writes: >Hello Everybody: > > I just finished reading a fairly nice little article in the June 10, 1991 >issue of ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES. This (for those who don't know) is a >weekly publication focusing (as you might expect) on electronics and (to some >degree) personal computers. > > On page 14 of this issue is a short article on new CD technology being >displayed at the summer Consumer Electronics Show, and after briefly discussing >the NEC, Nintendo, and Philips/Magnavox plans for home CD-I systems (sometime >late this year to next year), the article turned to the Commodore CDTV system. >The capabilities of the system were discussed and compared (favorably) to >the coming-someday CD-I systems, and it was mentioned that the exhibit was >'...one of the most popular at the show...". > > Not bad press, especially considering it was in an electronics magazine >that covers personal computing only scantily at best! > > >Steven W. >One of the Good Guys > >-- The only problem I had with the article was this: C = Commodore's Press P = Phillips' Press ppppppppp CCCpppppp pppppppp ppppppppp ppppppppp pppppppp ppppppppp ppppppppp pppppppp ppppppppp ppppppppp pppppppp CCCCCCCCC ppppppppp pppppppp CCCCCCCCC ppppppppp pppppppp CCCCCCCCC ppppppppp pppppppp Doesn't seem very good for "..the most popular at the show..". Although what was written was very favorable for Commodore & the CDTV. -- Michael M Morrison /| |\ mmm@reaper.chi.il.us | | Cold Steel on Ice | | reaper!mmm@miroc.chi.il.us \| |/