Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!apollo!rehrauer From: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun27.192124.19519@apollo.hp.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 19:21:24 GMT References: <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> Sender: netnews@apollo.hp.com (USENET posting account) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: copper.ch.apollo.hp.com In article <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > I will say this again, in a different way: nless Commodore drastically >improves the CDTV's color capabilities by time the Photo-CD systems become >available, Commodore will be laughed out of the country. Commodore has >a chance of beating the CD-I systems in the area of animation, but they >do not have a ghost of a chance of beating them in the area of still >pictures. The CDTV's pseudo-12-bit graphics pale against the 15/24-bit >graphics of the CD-I systems. Have you seen both systems in action? I have seen neither, myself, and I have to wonder whether you're not [a] chasing a specsmanship herring, and [b] overestimating the American consumer's willingness to pay for video quality. If CDTV is at all able to win a significant early market share, I'd say picture quality considerations, for 95+ percent of prospective CD-I / CDTV buyers, is a non-issue; price will talk louder. -- "Did you check the car to see if it's okay for | Steve Rehrauer a long trip, Sam?" "Well, the wheels are still | rehrauer@apollo.hp.com on... and here's the key... Yep, everything | Hewlett-Packard checks out!" -- Freelance Police | MA Languages Lab