Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: CDVT and CD-I Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 08:48:41 GMT References: <7284@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun20.192430.8126@ncsu.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 73 kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >>> [out this] fall for CD-I, there are more, but we're not doing them:-) >>> >>>Children's Musical Theater >>>Sesame Street Numbers >>>Sesame Street Letters >>>Treasures of the Smithsonian >>>Time/Life Photography >>>Rand-McNally US Atlas >>>Stamps: Windows on the World >> >>Sounds like an onslaught on the kiddie/educational market...Not something I >>would want personally...This might make parents look towards a few good books >>than a $1000 machine...especially since it isn't being marketed as a >>computer... > >Those are titles from just one company... you would expect some emphasis >on whatever they know/like best (if I'm not totally incorrect, this outfit's >parent company is into video production... like Sesame Street and so on). > >However, you did bring up something not asked often enough: just what >kind of titles are _you_ interested in? > Hum, how about a video magazine on disc?? Something like Popular Science or something...I know mastering times probably make this unrealistic, and advertising is a concern...Or maybe MANY monthly magazines on a single disk, which would be much more cost efficient for the user and the companies involved...but we won't see this for quite awhile, I am sure... Plus you need the blazemonger games...And the US Atlas sounds cool...And ANY kind of sports stats discs, I mean, going way back, where I could look up ANYTHING I wanted....Trivia type games would really be popular I would imagine with the capacity of these units!! How about baseball card type discs, where they got profiles of the years baseball players with the years rock music on it??? Or maybe a small audio blurb from each player?? And all their stats!! The best thing I can think of is stats disks, and where companies like Chrysler or Commodore could send out the stockholders reports on disc.... Wouldn't that be something! Not only can you show them pretty pictures, but put Bob Lutz or James Dionne's voices on the disc, talking and talking, about how they are in the tank or rolling over the market...Maybe that one isn't so good... A travel disc, where you can go and look up every major city in the world and see what they have to offer...I can see L.A. now, "Where the ground is brown, the air is brown, and the water is brown"...How about Detroit, "Where the weak are killed and eaten!"...Or Cleveland, "The mistake on the lake"... Junk Mail CD-ROM mailings!!!! it not only is an super duper clothes pin, it doubles as an door jam...How much would you pay now? Don't answer yet!! We'll throw in a free plastic gravemarker if you use the order code AFDDG! THE PHONE BOOK ON CD-ROM! Imagine all the TREE's they will save!!! ;-) Not only can you go alphabetically, but you can look up by phone number!! And of course, I would like to see educational disks, such as them "Do it yourself" books...Maybe I am thinking too big right now, but if this is marketed right by either Commodore or the CD-I gang, you may see some revolutionary products...I really think the baseball card type stuff put on disc would really be popular with adults...if done right... The wheels in my head keep turning and turning.... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) No blood for oil! Raising C.A.F.E. to 40MPG is just that!