Commodore's Blackest Day

[scuzzb494]

Commodore's Blackest Day

Just saying !

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_may18/scuzzblogdmay18_0801.htm

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_may18/scuzzblogdmay18_0802.htm

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_may18/scuzzblogdmay18_0803.htm

[midway]

cool stuff:)

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Nice photos!

What is the expansion with all the RCA jacks on it?

http://www.scuzzscink.com/amiga/scuzzblog_may18_4/car_sbd_080518_29.jpg

[klx300r]

never had one or wanted one but awesome pics and your 4 I know will be well taken care of

[psxphill]

CDTV is A500 based, it uses fat agnus and Gary from A500. It was designed under the Special Projects group.

[Pentad]

Nice photos! You have a great collection!

I know there are people who really like CDTV but I have always thought it was a colossal waste of time, money and effort by Commodore. It wasn't a good computer, it wasn't a good game console, it wasn't a good stereo...it just wasn't good at anything. Then you had the absurd price ~ $1000.

For me, CDTV is the symbol of the beginning of the end of Commodore. It was a product nobody wanted, nobody bought, and ate a tremendous amount of resources that could have gone to products that people really wanted.

-P

[BozzerBigD]

Nice photos! You have a great collection!

I know there are people who really like CDTV but I have always thought it was a colossal waste of time, money and effort by Commodore. It wasn't a good computer, it wasn't a good game console, it wasn't a good stereo...it just wasn't good at anything. Then you had the absurd price ~ $1000.

For me, CDTV is the symbol of the beginning of the end of Commodore. It was a product nobody wanted, nobody bought, and ate a tremendous amount of resources that could have gone to products that people really wanted.

-P

It should have been an Amiga 500 with a CD-Rom designed for the lounge.  They were wrong to take out the games ports etc and get rid of the Amiga branding.  It also should have had upgraded graphics and sound.

[IanP]

Commodore was trying to innovate which is always a risk. How optical disks would be used for "multimedia" was an experimental field. People expected the disks would be mainly used for reference works like encyclopedias and educational titles with narration and a bit of animation or music here and there, decent full motion video wasn't yet an option at an affordable price. Few games would justify the use of a CD yet as they weren't big enough and the Amiga graphics were more than good enough for the reference/education titles. Philips was trying to do the same with CDi but it turned out people weren't ready for "multimedia" in the living room and wouldn't be until around a decade later when DVD would take off with the killer app, quality movies. CD "multimedia" was a short lived thing on PCs before the internet exploded and consigned CD software to games and install disks. People didn't want to read "books" from a screen until the screens were small, light, held in the hand and paper like with the books being downloaded.