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- From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
- Subject: Re: CDTV??
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 20:56:40 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <27160001@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> marky@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Mark Yoshikawa) writes:
- >I haven't visited this notes group in a while....
- >
- >What's going on with CDTV?
-
- The next cool think I've been hearing is that once MPEG chips are
- available, C= will add them to CDTV.
-
- >Are there new titles being developed?
-
- I was in a store the other day (The Memory Location, in Wellesly, MA, great
- Amiga dealership) and I was impressed by the rack of CDTV titles available.
- I would guestimate that there were perhaps 50-100 titles, though I didn't
- try to see how many were duplicates so there may have been fewer different
- titles.
-
- >In the Good Guys I saw a stand for Phillips' CD-I machine, but none for CDTV.
- >I know the Phillips machine does not double as a computer, but CDTV can...
- >and since I own an Amiga it makes for a nice way of doing computing in my
- >living room!
-
- Actually, CD-I can be expanded to a computer the same way CDTV can, though
- Phillips doesn't advertise that since it's a home multimedia system (or
- whatever), not a computer. I've seen CD-I systems with hard drives, floppy
- drives, and all sorts of other add-ons. Of course, there's a lot more
- computer software available for the Amiga than CD-I, but if you want a
- computer with a CD-ROM drive you're better off buying one, rather than
- buying a CDTV or CD-I unit and added a hard drive, keyboard, etc.
-
- >Also, I thought this notesgroup was a lot larger? Is this a bad sign?
- >
- >
- >Thanks in Advance!
- >Mark Yoshikawa
- >Yet Another Amiga User (YAAU)
-
-
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