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- From: amiga@usage.csd.oz (Amiga Utilities)
- Subject: Re: What shits me about the CDTV
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.080938.10851@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
- Sender: amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities)
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- Reply-To: amiga@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Amiga Utilities)
- Organization: University Of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.
- References: <Steven_Hurdle.00vf@amusers.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:09:38 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- From article <Steven_Hurdle.00vf@amusers.UUCP>, by Steven_Hurdle@amusers.UUCP (Steven Hurdle):
- > In a message dated Tue 5 Jan 93 2:58, Amiga@usage.csd.oz (amiga Utilities
- > wrote:
- >
- > AU> Especially if you end up with a German version of the Welcome Disc.
- > AU> It took 2.5 months to get a sepo (American) version, only to realize
- > AU> that the horrible accent is intolerable.
- >
- > I've never heard of anyone complain about a similar accident. It must have
- > been just "one of those things"
-
- I think not. At the last World of C= here in Sydney several hundred users
- have been given German welcome disks with their CDTV's.
-
- > AU> Another thing that I am annoyed about is the fact that if you play
- > AU> musical CD's
- > AU> using the built in interface, and do not turn on your TV or monitor,
- > AU> you have no
- > AU> feedback whatsoever. If I want to know what track number is being
- > AU> played without
- > AU> having my monitor on, I have to boot from a floppy.
- >
- > This is simply not true. Turn on the CDTV, leave the monitor off. Plug in
- > an audio-CD. Hit Play on the front panel of the unit and the track number
- > will appear beside the clock and will stay displayed there and updated
- > through the time you're using it.
-
- Maybe you have a different version of ROMs, but why would I complain if
- it weren't true? You just try it on my CDTV!! Try following your method
- and then press the stop button about twenty seconds into the first track.
- Then play again, bet you the track number will not appear. If it does
- you must have a different version of CDTV to the one I have.
-
- > AU> I find the CDTV way too noisy. The built in fan makes so much noise,
- > AU> it makes
- > AU> the CDTV unusable for playing classical CD's with quite passages. In
- > AU> fact, the
- > AU> fan in the CDTV is just as noisy as the fan in my A2500. Even when I
- > AU> play my
- > AU> Cold Chisel CD's I find the noise of the fan annoying.
- >
- > What? Interesting. My CDTV's fan is definitely not as loud as A2000s that
- > I've used. Maybe this is something they've fixed in later models then?
-
- Lucky you!!
-
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