Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ox.com!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 03:57:32 GMT References: <1991Jun12.205030.4401@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu><1991Jun27.192124.19519@apollo.hp.com> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 34 rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer) writes: >In article <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu >> 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. Some people just give the American consumer too much credit. Most people buy what others buy, so whatever has the price advantage in the beginning and sells more, will have a major head start over anything else that comes later.. How else can you explain that Atari was still selling 2600's well into 1989? Any other ideas on how VHS is still outselling laserdisc players...AM stereo has never caught on...etc...Better doesn't sell when something cheaper is "good enough"...2400 baud modems are still selling quite well when the $400 V.32 modems are avaiable(And US Robotics HST still outnumbers V.32 modems in this area code 15 to 1, even though V.32 is full duplex and now somewhat cheaper if you shop around) -- C-UseNet V0.42f 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!) Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes, keep this is mind.