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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.181002.28902@news.iastate.edu>
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 18:10:02 GMT
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In article <rkushner.7483@sycom.UUCP>, rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes:
>taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>>   This sounds nice, but the problem is that the CDTV's color
>>capabilities are hardly photographic, especially compared to the CD-I
>>systems.  Unless the color capabilities of the CDTV are drastically
>>improved, the limited color of the CDTV will not do justice to
>>digitized true-color stills.
>
>As long as people can see two hands, two feet, and a head on their baby
>pictures, they won't care... Look how many people use SLP on thier VCR's?!
>I would say the video out of the CDTV is cleaner than SLP on a vcr. This will
>allow them to take their pictures and lock them up in the can, and still allow
>them to show them off to all their friends without destroying the pictures
>with fingerprints. And if Commodore has cut a deal with Kodak, CD-I won't have
>the Kodak name to parade around.

   Remember, Kodak isn't the only game in town.  By the time that the Kodak
systems are available, the CD-I machines will be out in force, and some
Japanese company could easily come up with a device similar to Kodak's
Photo-CD.  A Canon XAPSHOT connected to a CD-I system could easily sub for
a Photo-CD, for instance.

   I will say this again, in a different way: nless Commodore drastically
improves the CDTV's color capabilities by time the Photo-CD systems become
available, Commodore will be laughed out of the country.  Commodore has
a chance of beating the CD-I systems in the area of animation, but they
do not have a ghost of a chance of beating them in the area of still
pictures.  The CDTV's pseudo-12-bit graphics pale against the 15/24-bit
graphics of the CD-I systems.
 
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