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From: darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
Organization: Comspec Communications Inc  Toronto Ontario
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 16:00:05 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May29.160005.3163@comspec.uucp>
Keywords: Digital Video CDTV Amiga
References: <arctngnt.1549@amiganet.chi.il.us> <1991May22.015324.11494@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <1991May27.123818.20713@pa.dec.com>
Sender: darrell@comspec (Darrell Grainger)

In article <1991May27.123818.20713@pa.dec.com> neideck@kaputt.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz) writes:
>
>Can anybody enlighten me what the CDTV (Commodore Digital Total Vision ? What ?)
>is ? It seems to be related to providing a cpability for doing digitized video
>on the Amiga. What kind of compression scheme is used ? How does it
>work ?

 I think you are getting CDTV mixed up with DCTV. CDTV is basically a mix
between an Amiga computer and a CD-ROM player. Commodore is marketting the
CDTV towards the sort of person who would buy a stereo component but is a
little intimidated by a computer. You turn the unit on, pop in a CD and the
thing goes. It is designed to connect to a stereo system for nice sound but
can also use a TV for sound. Out of the box it is set to connect to a TV.
The cost of CD (which include titles like a dictionary, games, gardening
tips, history, geography) is comparable to a software package. For example,
Defender of the Crown on CD is $49 Canadian. Most software in Canada starts
at $49-$65 for a new title.
 
 DCTV is from Digital Creation (I think) who also make the SuperGen line of
genlocks. DCTV is a small box with two connectors and two RCA jacks.
The first connector plugs to the monitor port and has pass through for the
monitor cable. The second connector goes to the parallel port for the
digitizing software to control the DCTV (much like DigiView). One of the
RCA jacks is an input for a video signal (again similar to DigiView).
The other RCA jack is an output for the 24 bit graphics image (NTSC video).

>
>			Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, Digital CEC Karlsruhe
>			Project NESTOR

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