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CDTV Wows CES!

    21-Jun-90 04:10:38
Sb: #35149-CDTV Wows CES!
Fm: Bob Davenport 75746,2656
To: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76702,1071
AHH! At last, the place to ask this question (and plug the last remaining HUGH hole in my Laserdisk-player education): Could you please explain about CLV/CLA (I know Constant Linear Velocity/Constant Angular Velocity). What I am particularly interested in are the implications of those 2 designations when buying a comsumer-grade unit. Do most of the newer units play either type of disk? How can you tell if a disk is CLV or CLA (I've examined dozens of shrinkwrapped packages at the local retailer and I don't find the designation)? Is the TYPE of disk (feature film, instructional, promotional) an indication? Besides Freeze-frame (I read your and Karl's exchange), what other features/options are affected by CLA/CLV? You might want to include any other caveats you feel appropriate, as well as point out other large gaping holes in my knowledge base 8-). — Bob