#CD-I VS. CDTV
Where is Commodore Maketing ??? Where are the good writers that use Amiga
computers ???
These are good questions… but, do you know the answer ??
You can read the article in P.195 on Byte of Aug., entitled "Real Time Goes
Home" "Home appliances are coming with Multimedia features and a real-time
operating system"
Here are some concepts:
1) The CD-I system was the first in its genre of hardware, introduced in
the consumer makert in october 1991.
2) Interactive multimedia CD-I offers high-quality images, high fidelity
sound and interactivity.
3) Philips chose OS-9 as the basic operating system for CD-RTOS, the
ROM-based RTOS inside every CD-I.
4) Philips promised to ship CD-I players with MPEG before the year's end.
…and continues pointing out the good points of OS-9 and CD-I.
Who wrote this article, Philips's marketing ??? – I asked myself.-
Not Philips… but Ken Kaplan, president of Microware Systems wich,
!OHHH WHAT A COINCIDENCE!! developed and sells OS-9!
An article wich is suposed to cover RTOS is finally an ad for Philips CD-I.
I used OS-9 in 1984, with my first Tandy Color Computer. My opinion: a CP/M
clone with limited character-based multitasking.
A mention to CDTV ??? NO.
And we know that:
1) CDTV was released in June 1991.
2) CDTV offers good quality image and sound.
3) The AmigaDOS/Workbench combination is a lot better than OS-9
4) Commodore could (and should!) put MPEG/JPEG in CDTV
Where is Commodore Marketing ?? I don't know.
Is CDTV better than CD-I ?? Of course
What machine is known now by all the Byte readers ?? CD-I
Commodore should put its ad campaign in general magazines, such as Popular
Mechanics and in magazines such as Byte and PC Mag.! NOT IN AMIGA
MAGAZINES! (Amiga users already know CDTV!)
All the amiga users should write Byte. I think that CDTV needs a similar
article!. Come on! good writers, start sending CDTV articles to Byte!
CDTV future is Amiga's future!
F.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina.