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From: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic)
Subject: Re: CDTV..
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In a previous article, arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) says:

>
>You flamed me anyways. Think about it, Ethan. No one is going to spend $800 on
>a CD player, a VCR and an Amiga in one box.
>
>I could run out and get a CD player, a VCR, AND an Amiga, and have a more
>impressive and capable array of hardware, then wouldI get with a CDTV..
>
>And for LESS MONEY.

Well, first of all the CDTV does not contain a VCR. $800 is not a bad price at
all for a computer and CD-Player combo. An Amiga 500 costs around five or six
hundred dollars and I think Xetek wants (not sure) around 500 or so for there
CD-Rom player, so an Amiga and CD-Rom combo would cost around $1000. Also you
don't have everything nicely integrated in one box that looks at home as part
of an entertainment center and you don't get the remote control. CDTV is aimed
at a different market than the Amiga 500. The audiophile/videophile is the
market CDTV is aimed at, I know of more than a few people who have spent seven
or eight hundred dollars on an audio CD-Player alone, not to mention things
like the laser video disk players, high end audio cassette tape decks, DAT 
tape decks, and other high end audio equipment.
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