sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) (10/19/90)
Well, I was just looking through Popular Science magazine just now and guess what I saw! Yup! In the Electronic Newsfront section, they had a few paragraphs dealing with CDTV. They basically said what CDTV was and it was nothing that we didn't discuss earlier. One thing bothered me though in the last paragraph. Here is a direct reproduction of the paragraph without permission of course: CDTV will not be compatible with CD-I, the under-$1000 system Philips N.V. plans to launch in mid-1991, with support from Sony and Matsushita. CD-I will provide full-screen full-motion video, while CDTV offers half-screen moving pictures. My first gripe is why they said CDTV isn't comapatible with CD-I. Shouldn't they say CD-I isn't compatible with CDTV since CDTV will be out before CD-I?? Also, why does it say that CDTV offers HALF-SCREEN moving pictures instead of FULL-SCREEN? Did I miss something in the discussion of CDTV? I always thought my amiga had full-screen animation capabilities. And since the thing will have a CD-ROM interface, shouldn't it be able to animate FULL-SCREEN HAM images giving it FULL-SCREEN, FULL-MOTION video?? If you feel that it would be of interest to others, post it on the NET but if I am the only person to find this out just now, please e-mail. Sun...
martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin) (10/20/90)
In article <0b7cVIq00WB60=61AW@andrew.cmu.edu> sk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sun Kun Kim) writes: >Well, I was just looking through Popular Science magazine just now and >... >My first gripe is why they said CDTV isn't comapatible with CD-I. Shouldn't >they say CD-I isn't compatible with CDTV since CDTV will be out before >CD-I?? CD-I is a standard defined by Sony and Philips and presented at the Microsoft 86 CD-ROM conference. >Also, why does it say that CDTV offers HALF-SCREEN moving pictures >instead of FULL-SCREEN? Did I miss something in the discussion of CDTV? >I always thought my amiga had full-screen animation capabilities. And since >the thing will have a CD-ROM interface, shouldn't it be able to animate >FULL-SCREEN HAM images giving it FULL-SCREEN, FULL-MOTION video?? I not only a question of your computer capabilities, it also depend on the encoding scheme use on disk. Remember that CD-ROM transfers only 150k per seconds... Daniel. -- // Daniel Martin Universite de Montreal \\ // MediaLab, ca vous regarde! C.P. 6128, Succursale A, \\ \\// Mail: martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA Montreal (Quebec), CANADA, \\// \/ Tel.: (514) 343-6111 poste 3494 H3C 3J7 \/