A500 Promo

[trekiej]

Here is an Amiga500 promo I never saw
Back then I lived in the country, we only had 3 channels for tv.
If you did not live in the city you had to get an expensive satellite system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRkacQ-YMg&NR=1

[amigakid]

LOL i remember this one.  We used to play it from a VHS tape at the BX on base to promote the Amiga computer.

[trekiej]

In 92/93 I did get a video of Amiga CDTV form a place in TX.
I wish I could find it.
It may be ruined by now.
BX, must be and Airman.

[Hell Labs]

In 92/93 I did get a video of Amiga CDTV form a place in TX.
I wish I could find it.
It may be ruined by now.
BX, must be and Airman.

How could they promote the CDTV?

"please buy this, we don't know what we made it for, but please buy it off us? We've got a ******** of them, they're all over the place, We have to wade through pointless wastes of engineering budget every time we want to use the coffee machine. They're like tribbles or something. Send help."

[KThunder]

wait they had the monitors sitting right on computer, did anyone ever do that? i never had a 500, i never saw any reason back then to change from my 1000, then later my 3000. i never did that with my 1200 though.

[tone007]

The 500 is a fair amount deeper than the 1200, and some of the earlier monitors had fold down feet in the back to elevate them so the front half would rest nicely on the computer.  It wouldn't make much sense to do it with a 1200 since it wouldn't save you much space.

[Cammy]

Hell Labs, do you have to be so ignorant in every post you make on this forum? The CDTV had some very well made and informative video ads made for it that explain the many uses it had as a multimedia entertainment system with the ability to easily turn it into a fully functioning home computer. Just have a look on YouTube maybe before coming back with comments you know are going to piss off most of the people on this forum (like nearly everything you have ever posted on Amiga.org).

[Hell Labs]

Hell Labs, do you have to be so ignorant in every post you make on this forum? The CDTV had some very well made and informative video ads made for it that explain the many uses it had as a multimedia entertainment system with the ability to easily turn it into a fully functioning home computer. Just have a look on YouTube maybe before coming back with comments you know are going to piss off most of the people on this forum (like nearly everything you have ever posted on Amiga.org).

It did nothing a 500 and cdrom addon couldn't do. Please don't defend that junk. I've yet to see anyone on a music forum go "kurt blowing his brains out was the right thing to do, it improved his popularity with goths 300% and gave his girlfriend further oppertunites to get in gossip magazines!"

[tone007]

Hooray for ignorance!

The A570 does not give you 100% CDTV compatibility.

The CDTV obviously wasn't a huge success, but it was a forerunner in CD based home entertainment and was deliberately marketed to non-computer users as a home entertainment device, under the well-known Commodore brand.  The technology was new and the market didn't really exist yet, and unfortunately for Commodore their name wasn't enough to make them fly off the shelves.

[Hell Labs]

Hooray for ignorance!



The CDTV obviously wasn't a huge success, but it was a forerunner in CD based home entertainment and was deliberately marketed to non-computer users as a home entertainment device.  The technology was new, and the market didn't really exist yet.

It's not like much was missing. Maybe FMV? Good riddence, I've played half melted vhs tapes with better quality. and those FMV only games SUCK.

the market didn't really exist, and never would

There we go.

[tone007]

Misquote me all you want, but the market did and does exist, albeit with far more capable technology.  DVD player, CD-based game console, anyone?


..and hey, how about that stinker AppleTV!?

[Hell Labs]

Those aren't really the same at all. You can't really compare wierd ass faux-vcrs with **** like "plumbers don't wait ties" that they called "interactive movies" with either a games console or a whatever the hell the appletv is supposed to do. It plays itunes stuff, right?

[tone007]

The "weird-ass faux VCR" could play both video and games, so it can be compared to both DVD players and games consoles.

The AppleTV was just thrown in as another example of a product missing the mark.

[save2600]

Hell Labs, do you have to be so ignorant in every post you make on this forum? The CDTV had some very well made and informative video ads made for it that explain the many uses it had as a multimedia entertainment system with the ability to easily turn it into a fully functioning home computer. Just have a look on YouTube maybe before coming back with comments you know are going to piss off most of the people on this forum (like nearly everything you have ever posted on Amiga.org).

Cammy - going off like that is just plain sexy.  lol  Luverly new profile pic btw  

BTW: I'm not "pissed" by Hell Labs posts, but it would be nice to hear a little bit of the background - as to why he feels the way he does about things, considering his retrospective banter which is probably more introspective than anything. Sounds like he might be in his early 20's though as he extrapolates much. A lot of younger internet guys are desperately trying to re-writing classic gaming and computer history that way. BUT... in his defense, CDTV was marketed horribly here in the States - almost nonexistent. In fact, Philips CD-i had an even better clue that way, but no surprise there really, considering the megacorp that they are. No, Commodore mucked the marketing up big time here anyway. Europe (for sure) and maybe even Australia might have had more attention paid that way when it came to certain products - but certainly not here in the land of the free and brave.

[kolla]

I used to stop by a shop that had a demo CDTV, to play Lemmings after school. I also remember Indiana Jones and Faith of Atlantis on it. This was long before I became an "amigan" myself